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Against the changing background of New Deal activities yesterday's presidential act creating the National Industrial Recovery Board probably looms as large and significant in its implications as any other specific act of the administration since NRA's inception. The change is, of course, in line with the President's oft-reiterated statement that nothing except the spirit of the NRA can be regarded as permanent, but the face-saving value of this statement now becomes evident as never before proffered though it was in all sincerity...
...Hoot" upon occasion did more than this. At times it was definitely constructive, even scientific. The analysis last year of the NRA anticipated by six months the present basis for the only well-founded objections to that legislative hodge-podge. The review of the English department was dispassionate and thoroughly sound. The specific recommendations for an extension of tutorial and seminarial instruction here were based on an intelligently formulated educational theory and were financially practical...
After Mr. Roosevelt had started the re-organization of the NRA rolling along last night under two bodies and numerous aides, he said a few words to the Herald-Tribune Conference. While the country is waiting for meat in his speech on Sunday evening over the radio, there were one or two rather interesting features in last night's talk...
Everyone is waiting for some definite reassurance from the President which has not been forthcoming. The resignation of General Johnson and the growing importance of Richberg in the NRA has aroused more intensely vague fears which many have held during the last month or two that Mr. Roosevelt threw no oil on the troubled waters. He showed a distinct inclination, however, to pass off most of this criticism as vague rumor which no one should believe. He did say that it was valuable for the people of the country to think but he did not assuage their suspicious...
...been able to combat the inefficiency of his administration. This is a time when it would be wise for the administration to back down frankly and regain the confidence of "daunting Thomases" and theoretical die-hards. In the process it should retain the value that lies in the NRA. Not only has codification been excellent for large industries, but minimum and maximum hour legislation has great merit. The NRA should relieve itself of the tremendous meal which it has been unable to digest and should try to regulate competition, not destroy...