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Reasons for this sharp drop in public interest in NRA were plentiful. General Johnson has ceased giving daily dramatic performances in Washington. Normal working hours have softened his temper and his tongue. There are no more tycoons to be battled. The battalions of NRA propagandists have been disbanded. National code-making has almost petered out. Last week it was announced that barber shops, laundries, building managements, restaurants and local transportation would be encouraged to form their regional codes. Biggest NRA project afoot was not the making of codes, but a big meeting in Washington to air code criticisms, suggest revisions...
...near future, the Inquiry will have three meetings devoted to the application of the National Industrial Recovery Act: "The NRA and the Consumer," "The NRA and Labor," "The NRA and Business Management...
...before the Texas vote, NRA revoked its first Blue Eagle in a case involving child labor. Victim was neither a shrimp cannery operator nor a sugar beet harvester, both notorious pre-NRA child-sweaters, but one Moss P. Lugena, 53, proprietor of the Lugena Family Laundry...
...Lindell Ave., Hannibal, Mo. Mr. Lugena's family laundry was just that. He. his wife, three daughters, a son-in-law and a sister-in-law ran the business, lived upstairs over the plant. Two months ago, NRA compliance officers found Moss Jr., 15, driving his father's laundry truck, in violation of the blanket laundry code which prohibits youths between 14 and 16 from working more than three hours...
...Dorothy LaRue Brown of the Massachusetts League of Women Voters. "A step in the right direction was achieved by demonstrating the simplicity of its application under the NRA. Those connected with industries which had been the worst violators were the first to see the wisdom of that step. It is my opinion that the matter hardly requires further academic discussion. The right path has been definitely shown...