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...NRA, of course, has nothing to do with processing taxes," the onetime cavalryman snapped back, "but as to the effect of codes, the situation is the reverse of that pictured in the Board's statement. Practically every major industry has been operating under a code since August. . . . With the exception of the steel industry, every report we have received from major industries shows a definite upward trend." Dr. Emanuel Alexander Goldenweiser, the Federal Reserve's chief researcher and statistician, was treated to a telephone tirade by General Johnson who subsequently announced that Dr. Goldenweiser admitted the Reserve...
...name of Ford was on many lips. The Civilian Conservation Corps was going to buy 1,500 light trucks. A Washington Ford dealer had put in a bid $169,000 under his nearest competitor. In consternation the C. C. C., aware that although the dealer was an NRA member, Henry Ford was not, wanted to know from General Johnson's office what to do. General Johnson took his problem to the Friday Cabinet meeting...
...being done. They have used our product before; their specifications fit it and, besides, the prices usually are very easy on the department's budget. There is no money in Government bids unless some form of favoritism is practiced, such as is now possible under the NRA...
...oldtime Rugged Individualism, Mr. Ford will not be without potent backers. Last week another rugged individual, William Randolph Hearst, tried to pluck a few feathers from the Blue Eagle's tail. In an open letter to President Howard Davis of American Newspaper Publishers Association he described the NRA as "a handicap and not a help to recovery." He did not specify his objections but said: "The NRA is simply a program of social better ment, nothing else; and industry can accept and endure this program on a large scale only after it has recovered, not before. ... As a matter...
...World Changes (Warner). In the list of Hollywood indispensables, the date of Oct. 24, 1929 ranks high. The stockmarket crash is to unhappy endings what the NRA has recently become to conclusions of regeneration, and it has never had more disastrous consequences than it does upon the Nordholm family in this picture. Granddaughter Nordholm is left waiting at the church. Her brother, bothered about stealing money to play the market, takes ship for South America. His father commits suicide because he learns that his wife is misbehaving. Mean Mrs. Nordholm calls up her lover but he is too distressed...