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...this important moment. Marshal Roosevelt was distressed to see that several Labor sections of his Recovery march, those for whom, individually, NRA promised most, were breaking ranks in wild disorder. Strikes, jurisdictional squabbles, bloody labor combats pocked the land. An opportunity to megaphone Labor back into line presented itself when the President went to dedicate a monument to the late great Samuel Gompers on Massachusetts Avenue, a block from the American Federation of Labor Building in Washington...
...instance, a 1?a-lb. tax, it was calculated, would secure for FSRC between 50 and 100 million pounds of butter. Commodities which FSRC could not provide, Emergency Relief Administration would buy with the $330,000,000 it still has left from the $500,000,000 NRA relief appropriation...
Quick to create a diversion was smart, Harvard-graduated Dr. Soong, fresh from representing China at the World Economic Conference, after which he called on President Roosevelt. With appropriate fanfare Dr. Soong published a Government decree creating an NEC (National Economic Council) declared to be "modeled on the NRA...
Having waved over mine, shop and factory, the magic wand of the NRA was last week poised for its last big sweep, over the retail stores of the land. After public incantations which began in August and backstage sorcery continued all through September, the Retail Code was nearly ready for the President to approve and invoke...
...price-fixing squabble grew so noisy that the din passed beyond conference-room walls. Percy Straus's sidelong argument that retail selling should be a balanced function which, when efficiently performed, passes along price benefits to the consumer, reached the ears of Mrs. Mary Harriman Rumsey, head of NRA's Consumers' Advisory Committee. She perked up her ears and flatly denounced the whole fair practice section of the Retail Code. It was learned that Dr. Alexander Sachs of NRA's Research Division had confidentially reported to General Johnson that "stop-loss" was price-fixing and nothing...