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...Goldman, good anarchist, has always been against all governments. Henry Ford, good capitalist, has always disapproved of meddlesome governments. Last week U. S. newspaper readers rubbed their eyes to read that on a single day Emma Goldman came out for President Roosevelt and Henry Ford came out for the NRA. Jailed during the war for urging young men not to enlist, once sworn at as a "damn bitch of an anarchist.''* Emma Goldman was deported to Russia during Attorney General Mitchell Palmer's anti-Red drive of 1919. She spent years wandering across Europe. Few months...
...policies, has dominated them since the agency's re birth-Chairman Jesse Holman Jones, a Texan now become a titan. When Jesse Jones is out of Washington, RFC is out of Washington; no decisions are made, no major business transacted. Just as Hugh Johnson is NRA, Jesse Jones is RFC. Farm Boy to Financier, Like most of the Southwest's first generation of indigenous tycoons, Jesse Jones's origins were humble. He was born 59 years ago on a farni in Robertson County. Tennessee. His father moved over into Kentucky where he heard there was money...
...Corp.). He has at one time or another tried his hand at developing manganese concessions in Soviet Russia, zinc mines and public utilities in Poland. He still has his interest in one of Manhattan's big banking houses. But for several months his active interest has been the NRA which he has served as New York State NRAdministrator. Last week he got an NRA promotion, moved right up to General Johnson's elbow...
...became deputy administrator in charge of one (No. II) of NRA's five national divisions, supervising codes for the construction and machinery industries. Because of the large Harriman holdings in railroads and aviation, jurisdiction over transportation codes was hastily taken from Division II, transferred to Division V under supervision of Sol Rosenblatt...
...Insofar as the NRA works to diminish poverty it is worth supporting because there is a direct relation between poverty and crime. The criminal is usually from the poorer classes and being continually oppressed by the rich from childhood, he eventually commits some act against them that brings him before the courts. Once sent to the penitentiary there is little hope for him. No man that goes in comes out improved and ninety per cent of them are recommitted...