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...exalted post of commander and promoter of the silver-shirted Silver Legion (claimed membership: 100,000). Galahad Press published Liberation, a weekly magazine with which Shirtman Pelley publicized Silver Shirt ideals, attacked Jews for ruining the world, attacked the Federal Reserve System for being run by Jews, attacked NRA as a plan to sovietize the U. S., referred to Franklin D. Roosevelt as "President Rosenfeld...
...most A. N. P. A. conventions is defensive. Last year the bugbear was radio. This year it was the New Deal. Speech after speech, report after report whanged loudly on a few familiar strings: 1) The Press is being harassed or threatened on all fronts by punitive legislation. 2) NRA has upped production costs. 3) Pernicious regulations of advertising have cut down revenue. 4) The Administration is trying to throttle the Press by censorship...
Arkansas was not the only State to consider the labor of convicts last week. President Roosevelt approved an NRA code for prisons-signed by 28 States. Its notable provisions...
...baiting cousin "Bertie" McCormick, publisher of the Chicago Tribune. The News was the first newspaper in Manhattan to adopt a five-day week, first to fly the Blue Eagle. It roundly flayed the Press at large for pleading "freedom of the press" as a defense against an NRA newspaper code. It scolded its brothers for resisting Child Labor laws against newsboys and openly stated that it hoped to eliminate all newsboys from its own circulation system. It regularly whangs New York's archaic divorce laws and the breach of promise racket. It promised not to heckle President Roosevelt...
...only 36.9% last year. "It looks as though we will have better conditions than we have had for a good while," said Mr. Girdler. "I think we will make some money in the second quarter." Loyal Woolley. American Radiator's Chairman Clarence M. Woolley told his stockholders that NRA was directly responsible for industry's current upswing. But: ''Perhaps greater progress would have been accomplished if a start had been made with the capital goods industries." American Radiator's sales in January and February were up 48% from last year...