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...TIME" will go on the air again, and all because you are big enough to do things in your own way. BETTY CHAMBERS Mtincie, Ind. Rockefeller on the Radio Sirs: Under People in your Sept. 4 issue you erroneously report John D. Rockefeller Jr., speaking in behalf of NRA, as having made his first radio address. Mr. Rockefeller's first radio speech was delivered in Collier's Radio Hour on Feb. 12, 1928, his subject being "Character in Business." Such was the demand for reprints of this address that Collier's printed it in booklet form...
...travels through 17 countries on his westbound journey home. ¶ President Roosevelt proclaimed Oct 8-14 as Fire Prevention Week. ¶ To the American Bankers Association convening in Chicago the President sent a message exhorting its members to loosen up on commercial credit to help along the NRA drive. ¶ President Roosevelt got a business letter last week from the son of President Cleveland. As counsel for the Individual Brand Petroleum Association, Richard Folsom ("Dick") Cleveland, famed for the great revolt he led against the Princeton Club system two decades ago wrote to protest NRA's price-fixing...
Henry Ford continued to stay in the nation's headlines by doing nothing at all last week. As a "rugged individualist" he persisted in holding out against "robust collectivism" in the form of the NRA automobile code. He puttered around his northern Michigan camp, gave no inkling of his intentions, sneaked back to Detroit in the rear of a canvas-sided auto trailer. His friends said he was more concerned with his health than with the Blue Eagle. His critics called him a stubborn old codger who had never learned to cooperate with anyone...
Protests flowed in to General Johnson's desk, which he keeps bare as a ballroom floor at all times. The Alabama crowd wailed that NRA's illegal socialization of the industry would ruin them. The Appalachian operators stormed violently against unionization, restrictions on company stores and houses, prohibition of child labor. Others criticized the pay differentials between various districts. They pointed out, for example, that nothing but the Ohio River separated Western Kentucky's $3.84 per day scale and Illinois' $5. Having listened to such talk for six weeks, General Johnson was unmoved. With...
...will cooperate in re-employment by supporting and patronizing employers and workers who are members of NRA...