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Focus of the fight was: 1) a mass of detailed criticism of particular NRA codes from the Darrow artillery; 2) an equally detailed counter-volley from NRA's Counsel, Donald Richberg. Mr. Darrow was for a strong Leftward swing by NRA toward Socialism. General Johnson stoutly defended the patchwork job he had done for Capitalism. Mr. Sinclair engaged in a flanking fire upon the Darrow board's methods and conclusions. The gist of their viewpoints...
...have received several thousand complaints . . . from small businessmen who claim they are being strangled under Various codes. . . . Most of the questions raised by the vast majority of complainants do not present a fundamental question which concerns monopoly. . . . Such complaints in our opinion could and should be handled within NRA itself...
Richberg Answer: The code was assented to in writing by 9,039 members of the industry. Twenty-one complaining witnesses were heard by the [Darrow] board, including 15 out of 7,500 theatre operators. In contrast to 14 hours and 20 minutes of "hearings" by the board, NRA spent over 1,200 hours on the drafting of the code, heard 206 witnesses and obtained a code acceptable, not only to the industry, but approved by all the advisory boards of NRA. The board acted solely on the basis of a disorderly mass of unsworn and largely false testimony...
What the result of this biggest NRA fire and counterfire to date would be, Washington had to wait and see. How the President felt about the Darrow report was quickly demonstrated. The White House disclosed that the Darrow board will soon cease to exist because when the board was created the President. Mr. Darrow and General Johnson agreed that it should finish its work by May 31. This announcement was a surprise to some members of the Board. No surprise was it to most politicians. Since President Roosevelt could not suppress the Darrow report without inviting charges that...
...tried to appoint Judge Wilkerson to the Circuit Court of Appeals. Railway labor promptly sent a representative to protest to the Senate against confirmation of the nomination. The nomination was never confirmed. Labor's emissary was a young Chicago lawyer named Donald B. Richberg. Today Mr. Richberg is NRA's chief counsel...