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...such disadvantage, thanks to the fertility of the New Deal in producing new agencies and new jobs. In addition to about 75,000 regular Government jobs which were Mr. Farley's to give away, he got about 75,000 more as a result of the AAA, PWA, NRA, HOLC, etc. A little wire-pulling from the Post Office Department was all that was necessary to convince Congress that it would be best. because of the emergency, to put this new army of workers entirely beyond the reach of Civil Service requirements. Some high-minded New Dealers like Secretaries Ickes...
...textile workers the union estimated 22,000 were on strike, while employers set the figure at 13,000. Well aware that cotton goods have been piling up in warehouses, employers took the strike philosophically, announced the mills would stay shut indefinitely, declared the union was "striking against NRA." Union leaders announced that if the strike was not settled by the time of their national convention (Aug. 10), it would be made nationwide...
...year ago Hugh S. Johnson went to Washington to spend a few weeks putting U. S. Industries under NRA codes. Weeks dragged into months, months into a year. Last week when it came time for the general to take a vacation his score stood: 476 codes made, 262 to go. But the hard-talking NRAdministrator would not go vacationing with his job left in that unsettled state. He delivered an edict: All code-making must be wound up before he gets back to his desk. Then, his conscience content, he hopped an Army airplane with Secretary Frances ("Robbie") Robinson...
Having made this edict to end all code-making in 30 days, he announced that he had written the President that as soon as code making was done NRA would cease to be a one-man job and should be administered by a non-partisan commission. Then, lest the public entertain any premature hopes of his early retirement, he added...
...Dairy Cattle Congress, 4,500 farmers and farm women gave him a hand as his white shoes waded through the inch-thick dust on the dirt floor to put him before the microphone. Save for paying his compliments to Germany (see p. 9), he delivered a mild defense of NRA: "When anybody tells you that NRA and the Blue Eagle have not done for the farmer all that he hoped, you can confidently tell them to go jump in the lake...