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...worth remembering," said the President to the Congress last week, "that the purpose of this law challenged the imagination of the American people and received their overwhelming support." But that was nearly two years ago and Franklin Roosevelt was not fooling himself about the present status of NRA. In his message to Congress he was rehearsing all the good points he could think of in NRA's favor-its noble objectives, its more disputable accomplishments: "Giving re-employment to 4,000,000 people. . . . Collective Bargaining. . . . Lifting the curse of child labor . . . starvation wages . . . excessive hours of labor . . . dishonorable competition...
Thereupon he recommended giving the Recovery Act another two years of life from the date of its expiration, June 16 (TIME, Feb. 25). Like his reasons for renewal, his recommendations for changes in NRA were largely rhetorical generalities. Said he: "Detailed recommendations along the lines which I have indicated have been made to me by various departments and agencies charged with the execution of the present law. These are available for the consideration of the Congress, and, although not furnishing anything like a precise and finished draft of legislation, they may be helpful to you in your deliberations...
...thoughts were of him. Secretary Roper made him head of his Business Advisory & Planning Council. And when the President wanted someone to step into General Johnson's shoes, Clay Williams was the answer. He came at 95? a year ($1 after April i) and began getting down to NRA headquarters at 7:30 in the morning. He still does. At breakfast, lunch and dinner, he goes out to eat with businessmen who have kicks against NRA-it is against his rules to be interrupted by callers or telephones during office hours. Otherwise he is not seen around Washington...
...Franklin Roosevelt he is a valuable midway man: to bring order out of the NRA's adolescent chaos, to bring it peace instead of contention in the public prints. For Clay Williams has not the temperament to promote stormy scenes and he never has anything of importance to say to the Press. What he has to say he says at the White House himself or sends word by Donald Richberg. He is valued also as a midway man on NRA theory. The index of cigaret consumption fluctuates with every economic curve-and the industry meets fluctuations by flexing...
...question: "Is it oriole, redbird or bluebird, or some strange, un-Auduboned new bird?" S. Clay Williams favors an NRA of neutral color with no spectacular plumage. That makes him a considerable asset to the New Deal. For when the shooting begins over the form of NRA's renewal, a neutral bird will be the poorest target...