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...object to General Johnson hanging more dead cats on the President. Nine months of this explains why NRA has come to mean National Run Around." With this salutation a group of union leaders last week greeted the proposal General Johnson offered to settle the threatened steel strike...
...numbers, occupations and geographical distribution of the unemployed have never been accurately known. Without such knowledge relief funds cannot be spent intelligently, public works cannot be spread where they will do the most good, NRA cannot calculate how much reduction in the work week is necessary to sop up the puddles of joblessness. More important, the Administration cannot lay a sound plan tor unemployment insurance such as President Roosevelt recommended last week...
...obtained until the autumn term of the Wilmington court. Even then any decision will be appealed next winter to the U. S. Supreme Court. And before that august tribunal can make up its collective mind, it is likely that June 16, 1935 will have come and gone and NRA expired...
...some 5,000 persons of both colors elbowed in. They bought programs, contributed to a collection. Stocky, gold-toothed and grey-haired, Elder Michaux introduced himself as "The 'Happy Am I' preacher," launched into a sermon praising President Roosevelt. ''The President," said he, "sponsored the NRA BlUb Eagle. I sponsor the NRA White Eagle. The difference is that the first stands for National Recovery Administration while mine stands for National Revival Administration. Any doctor will tell you that you can't have recovery without revival. The same is true of our country...
...Hearstpapers which is noted for its forthright opinions. More than once during Depression Hearst-readers found a stinging Haney article sandwiched between the professional optimism of regular Hearst financial editors. Last week Professor Haney said: "I am widely known for my adverse criticism of the New Deal and of NRA in particular...