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Board of Trade Walter Runciman, one of the Empire's greatest shipping and industrial tycoons, went out to bleak Penzance and told an audience of sturdy Cornish constituents that President Roosevelt's neglect thus far to stabilize the dollar has jeopardized his chances of succeeding with the NRA...
...pound and the franc [which President Roosevelt refused to do at the time of the World Economic Conference]. I say without hesitation that before many months have passed the United States authorities will be anxious to see their dollar as stable as our own currency. . . . If the [NRA] experiment fails it means another period of depression in the United States and that cannot occur without hav ing its effect on us." Same night in London the Roosevelt experiment was sardonically described by Sir Josiah Stamp, rotund Board Chairman of the London, Midland & Scottish Railway, a Director of the Bank...
...best kind of backing and the only request I make is that you be prompt about it. " With almost embarrassing promptness, Editor Pew's speech was followed by an uproar in Washington which answered the President's question. Regular attendants at General Johnson's NRA press conferences have been the editors of two of Washington's "confidential news letters" Willard Monroe Kiplinger whose Washington Letter is circulated privately to business executives, and James True, who gets out a similar bulletin called Industrial Control Reports. Last week it became known that both Kiplinger and True had been...
...group; by denervation of the adrenals when the disease is in other groups, while in a small group both thyroid-removal and adrenal-denervation should abate or cure the disease. That this is the case is now established." Factory Medical Code. The surgeons are trying to put through an NRA code which will require all employers of labor to have their employes given a medical examination by hired company doctors. Every factory must contribute to the support of pathological and x-ray laboratories, intend the surgeons. They ''insist that industry utilize hospitals which are equipped with proper facilities...
...down here and I'll Long Island you. I won't have five or six men jump on you the way they did on me and then run off. I'll man-to-man it with you." On her 78th birthday, Elizabeth Mead Johnson, mother of NRA's General Hugh Samuel Johnson, told Okmulgee, Okla. reporters: "I have been that boy's mother for 51 years, and I thought he was the greatest thing I ever saw when I first laid eyes on him. He has always been great to me. The NRA has made...