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Pleading for a two-year extension for NRA last month, President Roosevelt told Congress: "A great advance has been made in the opportunities and assurances of collective bargaining between employers and employes. Under it the pattern of a new order of industrial relations is definitely taking shape." Last week at Louisville, Ky. (see p. 15) and Wilmington, Del. the pattern of that new order was badly disarranged by two Federal judges who thought in terms of the Law rather than in terms of the social aspirations of the New Deal...
...same time, Borah surprised his colleagues by asserting that President Roosevelt and former NRA administrator Hugh S. Johnson had disagreed sharply over methods of protecting the little man under the new deal...
Providence R. I., March 7--General Hugh S. Johnson, former NRA Administrator, told the Rhode Island Bar Association here tonight that there has been a favorable reaction to that part of his Monday night speech in which he attacked the Rev. Charles E. Coughlin, the radio priest...
...narrator, "is threatening to gobble up the miserable invader" . . . And won't the senators howl with glee, and the radio listeners each rock back and forth in helpless mirth when they hear a few sombre stooges inquire "what about the public works program and the future of the NRA...
Thus Congress was left with the job of working out by itself fresh NRA legislation from the ground up. Shrewdly the President refrained from making a major issue out of the component parts of a measure Administration leaders will be obliged to pass eventually to save their own faces. Invited to debate, Congressmen can get their grievances against NRA out of their systems without taking a slap at the President. The widespread Congressional urge to "investigate" this prime piece of New Deal experimentation from a dozen different angles will doubtless spend itself harmlessly in the protracted House and Senate hearings...