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...Deal' Administration has stopped the dangerous trend towards Fascism and Nazism that existed before it came into power," said Donald R. Richberg, General Counsel of the NRA, Mr. Richberg, in a speech to be given tomorrow in room 100 of the Baker Library at the Business School, will go farther into this point and will present many statistics relating to the work of the NRA. "The people of this nation were headed straight for either Fascism or Nazism until the present administration came into power," continued Mr. Richberg. "And if the President should fail to handle the situation befor...
Still trying to get around Mr. McCarl, General Johnson advised Secretary Wallace that Ford Motor Co., "save in respect of certain technical particulars which are considered immaterial," had satisfactorily complied with NRA requirements, but that Dealer Sabine ought not to get the contract. He was, reasoned General Johnson, "probably" violating the automobile retail code by bidding lower than the list price for Ford trucks...
Donald Richberg, eaglophile counsel of the NRA, promptly pooh-poohed this blunt setback: "The judge's remarks on the alleged unconstitutionality of the Recovery Act itself obviously do not carry any legal weight, since they were expressive of the jurist's personal view and did not constitute a ruling on a point...
...Brooklyn David Lind and Moe Levine, operators of a filling station chain which never signed the NRA oil code, were indicted for having worked their employes 66 hours per week although the code permits but 48 hours, and for improper posting of gasoline prices. Last week they pleaded guilty "rather than be called obstructionists," were fined $400 (out of a possible $13,500). Elated at the outcome of the first criminal prosecution under the oil code, Secretary Ickes crowed, "A signal victory . . . most gratifying . . . a warning to other violators...
...each & every automobile dealer in the U. S. last week went a fat little pocket manual to put a stop to this competitive method of price cutting. As an appendage of the automobile dealers' code under NRA, the manual listed the maximum trade-in allowance on every make and model of car. No dealer could offer a customer more without violating the code. risking punishment. The prices listed were compiled from nation-wide second-hand sales by the National Automobile Dealers Association, which issues its Official Used Car Guide on prices each month...