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...troubled little baker in Glenns Ferry, Idaho (pop. 1,414), last week was E. W. Nestak. He had been charging his fellow townsmen 9¢ a loaf for fine unsliced white bread when an order came from the NRA Bakery Code Administrator to boost his price to 10¢. Honest Baker Nestak thought it best to obey but he also wrote to his senior U. S. Senator to ask if the order was legal and binding...
Next day Glenns Ferryites again bought bread at Borah prices, 9¢ a loaf, and NRA had to decide whether it would take on Senator Borah as a court adversary. Little appetite has the New Deal for trying conclusions with political champions. Senator Glass of Virginia, for instance, would love nothing better than to battle NRA or the Labor Board if either tried to interfere with the operation of his Lynchburg News...
Last week NRA's compliance officer in Idaho quickly found an excuse for sidestepping a contest with Lawyer Borah over Baker Nestak's bread prices. Said he in his best face-saving style...
...results . . . are disappointing but not hard to understand," President John McKinlay told his stockholders. "Our sales failed to increase to the extent necessary to cover the increased burden put upon us by NRA and other national and local governmental agencies. During the second quarter our payroll was $1,008,000 more than a year ago and our taxes were $626,000 more...
...other prohibited producers from raiding their rivals' star performers with offers of higher salaries. When cinema companies began going bankrupt, Hollywood ceased to brag of its wage scale and cinema employes began to take unusual pains to get their Federal income tax returns just right. Last week, NRA Division Administrator Sol Arian Rosenblatt, able Broadway lawyer, made his long-awaited report on stars and salaries...