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...regards the NRA, Mr. Thomas called it a failure, stating that more were out of work in October, 1934 than in the preceding year. He declared that the logic of events would cause us to believe in government regulations of unions...
...Houde agreed to treat with both unions on alternate Saturdays. The new National Labor Relations Board picked up the case, and, in a significant decision that launched the Government on a brand new labor policy, ordered the company to negotiate only with the majority of its workers. Houde refused. NRA took away Houde's Blue Eagle. In September the Houde case made even more headlines when the National Manufacturers Association notified its membership to ignore NLRB's decision on majority rule. The board's retort was to prepare a complaint against the Houde company and send it to the Department...
...neither the Ford Motor Co. nor anyone else could safely defy his Blue Eagle, Mr. & Mrs. Edsel Ford were warmly welcomed by the chieftain of the New Deal. To newshawks who clustered around him in the street, Edsel Ford reiterated that the Ford Company had not signed certificates of NRA compliance, reiterated that it was living up 100% to NRA requirements. All was forgiven if not forgotten, for the Government had just sanctioned the purchase of a Ford for the first time since the great quarrel a year ago.* The President and Edsel Ford had met in the glass pool...
...President Roosevelt got a new right hand to manage one of the New Deal's most grievous problems: code enforcement. Sol Ariah Rosenblatt, 33-year-old Harvard graduate, formerly NRAdministrator in charge of the Amusement Code, was put in charge of all NRA enforcement officers in the U. S., given the job of passing on code violations. Thus he became in effect No. 2 man of the Recovery Administration...
...from her own estate at Middleburg, Va., Mary Harriman Rumsey, chairman of the NRA Consumers' Advisory Board, was riding in the Piedmont hunt when her mount stumbled and threw her. An expert rider, Mrs. Rumsey was not spry enough to extricate herself before the horse rolled on her. broke her thigh and four ribs. Rushed to a Washington hospital, she was given a blood transfusion, reported "getting along nicely...