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Heckling from the Hill When Congress is not in session its voice cannot be heard. When its voice cannot be heard it might as well not exist. Hence General Johnson, whose NRA did not begin teething until after Congress adjourned last June, was troubled for months by the complaints of old guard businessmen, but not by the caterwauling of Congressmen. To be sure. Senators Borah and Nye wrote him protesting that NRA was driving small businesses to the wall and turning trusts loose on a career of price fixing. To be sure, they appealed to the President and were given...
Senator Nye used warmer language: "If what seems to have been the policy of NRA is continued the plunderers may well adopt 'The Last Round-Up' as their theme song and trample under heel whatever remains of independent business and make the consumer a mere slave...
...Senator spoke up to defend NRA, but conservative Democrat Glass and radical Democrat Costigan both chimed in on the critical chorus...
...Senator whom I love for his intestinal fortitude perhaps more than any Senator other than Carter Glass. . . . It will be an attempt to put in the act about three lines forbidding action by any industry in unison and in effect substituting the Federal Trade Commission for the NRA...
...ruin for small businesses, Senator Borah boomed. "When those things are remedied I will cease my efforts and not till then." And Mr. Nye cried eloquently: "Nero may rant and roar, but all the browbeating he may resort to will not destroy, though it may delay, knowledge of what NRA policy is doing ... to the end that the plunderbund may enjoy larger monopoly...