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...thinks must think of the next war as they would of suicide, but most people don't think. . . . How deadly stupid we are. . . ."; 3) turned over her regular press conference to Mrs. Mary Harriman Rumsey who told the disappointed newshawks how female consumers can complain to the NRA about the cost of what they buy and to Miss Mary W. Dewson of the Women's Division of the Democratic National Committee who told what plans were afoot to make women Democrats out of women Republicans...
...General Johnson's elbow Mr. Harriman met an old acquaintance: his sister, Mrs. Mary Harriman Rumsey, passionate New Dealer, who at the instance of her good friend Madam Secretary Perkins, enjoys the chairmanship of NRA's consumers' advisory board, and has become a favorite with the General. Sister Mary founded the Junior League at the turn of the Century and later sought an outlet for her restlessness in such unrelated fields as running a smalltown newspaper for a while, horse-and cattle-breeding on her Virginia estate and sponsoring the co-operative movement among U. S. farmers...
Just why he was out of a job was in dispute. United Air Lines said he had taken a leave of absence last autumn to attend NRA hearings in Washington, that he had neither returned to work nor communicated with the company, thereby automatically ousting himself. Pilot Behncke said he reported for work at Chicago Dec. 22, when he was called into the office of Vice President D. B. Colyer and discharged for four reasons: 1) he had not secured proper permission to attend NRA hearings; 2) the company assumed he had severed connections; 3) his activities and utterances...
...land. But the real supporters of administrative law, and a few of them went on record as opposed to the President's stand, can have done so only on one ground, that the Federal Trade Commission has been so emasculated by the Supreme Court as to endanger the NRA and the future of administrative law alike if General Johnson's decisions are referred to its competence...
...Federal Trade Commission means, in practise, the supremacy of the common courts, which have nothing but the very limited precedent of the Minnesota mortgage case to support their findings. The sphere of law within which they operate does not now empower them to validate the important legislation of the NRA, and it will not do so until the Supreme Court has built a broad basis for the executive claims. The emergency basis of the Minnesota Mortgage decision is a trifling trump in a game so large, and so far reaching, as that which the President's compromise...