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...sweltering summer drew to its close, it became plain that Mr. Roosevelt was finding that the ending to his story presented difficulties. People were beginning to feel that the government was spending millions with no carefully-constructed plan. They were laying labor unrest at the door of the NRA; higher food prices to the AAA. In short, recovery does not seem so sure a bet as it did a short time ago. What is more natural than that Harvard with its conservative leanings should take up its conservative leanings should take up its beliefs again...
...Basic revision of NRA codes to remove restrictions on production, a recommendation of the Darrow Board, will be placed before President Roosevelt for approval soon, it was learned tonight...
Price fixing as a general policy also may be eliminated in the same sweeping change in NRA policy which is designed to step up employment and raise the price level in line with President Roosevelt's recent declaration...
...would belong to a textile workers union. Because of the failure of the oldtime Noble Order of the Knights of Labor and the I. W. W., the "One Big Union" movement faltered until the birth of the Blue Eagle. There was strong sentiment toward the vertical (industrial) union in NRA, shared, but for tactical reasons not promulgated, by General Johnson. At A. F. of L.'s Washington convention last year the industrial v. craft union question was shelved for "study." At the San Francisco convention which concluded last week the problem finally came up for the first positive action...
...Heretic William Montgomery Brown, ousted bishop (TIME, Oct. 8), a committee did so by, advising the Bishops to reject it. The Bishops concurred. ¶ A Young People's Conference tingled to a Leftish speech by Very Rev. John W. Day, dean of the Topeka, Kans. Cathedral, who flayed NRA as capitalistic, exhorted his hearers not to bear arms and urged wartime conscription of wealth. Even more tingling were the words of another Day, Rev. Gardiner M., student pastor at Williams College. Telling the Church League for Industrial Democracy about his summer in Soviet Russia, he called the Russian Orthodox...