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...Times for which the writer has since apologized. However, you may like to see a copy of the letter Mr. Steffens wrote to the Governor, Herbert Fleischacker, Traffic Chief Cato, newspaper editors and sheriffs and district attorneys and attorneys for big ranchers and some State and Federal conciliators and NRA chiefs. Enough money was collected for a typewriter and considerable over. Mr. Steffens was Chairman, Secretary and Treasurer of the Caroline Decker Typewriter Fund. If this be "leading," "agitating," "organizing," or "egging on" the workers, this he did for the little 21-year-old Union Secretary...
...Hughes's proposals when he was Governor of New York. And the President's friend, Raymond Moley, took occasion in an address to the Advertising Club of New York to belittle the radicalism of the Administration's program by asserting flatly that: 1) the essentials of NRA had been proposed not by the Brain Trust but by the U. S. Chamber of Commerce; 2) exchange regulation "will hurt nobody except those who should be hurt...
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...offer: ''Restore confidence!" That hoary cry rang frequently through the Chamber last week but never more loudly than from the Chamber's president under Herbert Clark Hoover. Silas Hardy Strawn, a stout Republican pillar, spoke on security regulation, a subject which ranked a close second to NRA as the Chamber's chief interest. The hard-bitten Chicago lawyer refused to admit that he was a Roosevelt wolf-crier but his speech was shot with such phrases as "hysterical legislation . . . unbearable if not confiscatory taxes . . . lack of confidence, the greatest menace to the revival of normal business...
...Street and one of his favorite beasts is that he has run on every conceivable ticket for membership in the House of Representatives and that he has never won. One of his latest achievements is the counsel which he has procured for the newsboys in their protest to the NRA code...