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...plan will be experimental for at least the next decade, for its results are dependent on a change of attitude and consequent revision of civil service laws. The Harvard graduates, now serving on federal agencies such as the NRA, the AAA, and the Securities Commission, are appointed. No one has definite assurance that these boards will not be abolished in a succeeding administration. The present dependency of business on government would seem to indicate, however, that the importance of well-trained officials will become an increasingly vital problem...
...first two years of the New Deal were, from an economic point of view, no smashing success. NRA, AAA, $4,000,000,000 a year in emergency expenditures, dollar devaluation, all had been tried but some 5,000,000 families still remained on relief. The Government's financial credit could not stand such a strain indefinitely. Nor could the Administration's political credit. A new economic order might be set up by a five-year or a ten-year plan, but certainly not by an 18-month plan. And the campaign of 1936 is not more than...
Humiliated by these elections, the A. F. of L. roared its protest when President Roosevelt renewed the Automobile Code, extending it to the legal date of NRA's expiration, June 16. The President did not consult the A. F. of L., did not stipulate a 30-hr. week, did not abolish the hated merit clause. But what galled the Federation most was that, in renewing the Code, the President provided that the Wolman Board should continue to be binding on the industry...
...John Lewis' animosity toward Donald Richberg goes back to the bitter personal situation of last September when Richberg supplanted Hugh Samuel Johnson in NRA. In his windy memoirs, currently running in the Saturday Evening Post, Johnson reveals that Lewis, one of his few great friends in Labor, at that time wired him from a sickbed: IF I HAD BEEN THERE THIS WOULD NEVER HAVE HAPPENED. Thus Laborite Lewis now finds himself personally allied with Johnson, driven out of NRA largely by Labor's fire, and leagued against Richberg, the man Labor originally helped boost into NRA...
Professor Cabot is of the opinion that business should be regulated by boards selected from men engaged in similar enterprises, and that the day of fearing friendly contact with a competitor must go. Organization of trade groups as encouraged by the NRA will be the topic for discussion at the next seminar...