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Rumpus. The night of Mr. Wallace's remarks to the Press the excited theorists carried their quarrel to the White House. The President tried compromise. He got Mr. Wallace, Mr. Peek, General Johnson together, decreed that all codes being negotiated by AAA should be transferred to NRA, except those for the first processors of agricultural products and for handlers thereof before the first processing. The codes thus transferred were put beyond the reach of the radical Braintrust group, but regarding the codes left behind, the Braintrusters had the victory...
...found much difficulty in pacifying his followers. Since he was determined to back Mr. Wallace and Mr. Wallace was determined to back Messrs. Tugwell and Frank, the problem was to find a consolation prize for Mr. Peek. First suggestion was that he move over to a subordinate job in NRA. Then Mr. Tugwell suggested that he be made Minister to Czechoslovakia with a roving assignment as salesman for U. S. farm products in Europe. Both of these propositions Mr. Peek rejected. Then the President suggested he head a new committee to negotiate for greater export privileges for U. S. products...
...match those of the Capitalist Rockefellers the original scheme had to be dropped. What Artist Rivera made instead was a cartoon strip, a panorama of civilization in the U. S. as seen through Communist eyes from the landing of the Pilgrims and the liquidation of the Indians to NRA and the farm strike. The New Workers' tenure of the garret being none too permanent, the metal lath and plaster panels of each fresco, weighing up to 350 lb., were made removable...
...slaves; John Brown on the gallows; the Ku Klux Klan; Karl Marx-on through riots, strikes, lynchings, Benito Mussolini, Adolf Hitler (with a pansy in his necktie) to a scene of violence and confusion superimposed by a placard: WORKERS UNITE OR THE BLUE EAGLE WILL WEAR A BROWN SHIRT. NRA PAVES THE WAY FOR FASCISM...
...newspaper will be independent politically like the rest of my papers. I support President Roosevelt because he is a great Liberal not because he is a Democrat. LaGuardia is another great Liberal. . . . I am behind General Johnson and the NRA . . . controlled credit inflation. I want to run a newspaperman's newspaper...