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...personal secretary Marguerite Le Hand, he boarded the Government yacht Sequoia and cruised down the Potomac to meditate on one of the Administration's major problems: how to get the wheels of heavy industry turning and employ the workers of heavy industry who in spite of PWA and NRA still remain idle...
General Johnson, too, has a number of Jews in his Recovery army, foremost of whom are Sol Arian Rosenblatt, Administrator of Division V (Amusements & Transportation), and Alexander Sachs, Chief of the Division of Research & Planning. Head of NRA's Labor Advisory Board is Dr. Leo Wolman (prolabor but not a radical), who also sits on the National Labor Board and heads the Automobile Labor Board. And finally there is Rose Schneiderman (Labor Advisory Board) who last January went to Puerto Rico to iron out its labor difficulties and, more recently, has threatened to sue Dr. Wirt for calling...
...Haven last week went Publisher Ogden Mills Reid of the New York Herald Tribune, to address the staff of the Yale Daily News, of which his son Whitelaw is a member. Publisher Reid told the college journalists the threadbare story of the publishers' fight against NRA for a "Free Press." Next day it took the Herald Tribune three full columns to report its owner's direful words...
...Publisher Reid was concerned not only with censorship. Press freedom was also threatened, he told the Yalemen, by "demands to make expenditures which are not economically desired or possible." By that definition, the Missouri convention of the NEA last week found a new challenge to freedom in the proposed NRA communications code. Section 4 of the code forbids rate discrimination in favor of any class of user. Did that threaten the traditional telegraph press rate (one-third of the full day rate, one-sixth of the full night rate) by which U. S. newspapers save $10,000,000 a year...
...Satisfied?" On NRA there was grumbling galore but the Chamber never doubted for a moment that in one form or another it was here to stay. General Johnson, who made no thundering defense before the assembled Chambermen, was not so sanguine. At a dinner of trade association executives he announced plans for a nation-wide drive within a month or two to whip up flagging interest in the new "code eagle." "Due to a lapse of public enthusiasm," said the General, a drive was imperative. "If you can't get public support, you just can't make...