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...elected on terms even mildly resembling a Party victory. He had carried Michigan and towed many of that State's Republican Representatives to victory with him. His record was not a record of outright opposition to the New Deal but of compromise with it. He had voted against NRA and AAA, but for dollar devaluation, for the Securities Exchange Act, for the Federal Housing...
Later: "I hear from fairly good sources that America is on the verge of Communism. . . . The sailors on the big war ships have their red flags all ready to hoist to the tune of the Internationale. If the NRA fails, there is bound to be Hell popping...
...agencies. The members were to advise the Executive Director, whose job was to co-ordinate all administrative functions of the Government. Named to the post of Executive Director was Donald R. Richberg, now on indefinite leave of absence with pay ($14,250) from his post as general counsel to NRA...
...permanent NRA...
...began to come to life as a critic of the New Deal. Since last New Year's not a Tuesday has gone by without a potshot or broadside by Editor George Horace Lorimer in the general direction of Washington. Recurrently the Post flayed the Brain Trust, the Treasury, NRA, ''made" work, experimentation, the Democratic Party, President Roosevelt. It proclaimed that the Government's "spending spree" was conceived to "make [the world] safe for everyone except those who have saved." Of wealth it warned that "redistribution can easily become confiscation." Its editorial titles seemed to strike Republican keynotes: "Who Is Going...