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...with open arms after Congress had, in his absence, flouted his wishes by overriding his pension veto, by taxing Philippine coconut oil, by threatening to remonetize silver (see p. 14), by extracting teeth from the Stock Exchange bill. When Franklin Roosevelt-after a long conference with General Johnson and NRA Counsel Richberg aboard his train coming from Miami-drew into Washington's Union Station, he was surprised to hear the stentorian trumpets of the Marine Band playing "Happy Days Are Here Again" and William Woodwin's "The Franklin D. Roosevelt March," to see the smiling faces...
...First came official acts that needed haste. He held a Cabinet meeting. He signed the Johnson bill forbidding loans to defaulting nations, signed a joint resolution directing the Federal Power Commission to study electric power rates throughout the U. S., signed an administrative order to enable NRA code authorities to assess all code members for the cost of code administration...
...NRA was a triple Godsend to John Llewellyn Lewis. First it enabled him to "organize" coal fields that had not been unionized, to increase the members of his United Mine Workers from 300,000 to 650,000 in a few months. Second, NRA provided a new force to compel coal operators to raise wages and shorten hours -as General Johnson did fortnight ago to prevent a strike in the soft coal fields. Last week, as a third blessing, NRA provided Mr. Lewis with a new and bigger stage for his oratorical genius. Orator Demosthenes practiced speaking with a mouthful...
Canada has no New Deal, no NRA, no Brain Trust. Canada did, however, have a Depression. Dominion business is estimated to be at least 33% above the 1933 low. Newsprint to Canada is what automobiles are to the U. S. Dominion newsprint production for the first quarter was 41% above last year, in March was up 53% to the highest figure for the month since...
Championing the cause of the Crimson in the debate with M.I.T. will be Hubert H. Nexon, Richard B. Applebaum, and Ellwood M. Rabenold, Jr. The Harvard trio will present the negative side of the question, "Resolved, That the NRA should become a permanent part of the United States Government...