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Also working with General Johnson are his wife and their son Kilbourne. The latter, a 26-year-old graduate West Pointer on leave from the Army, spells his name Johnston. His father dropped the "t" years ago. As an investigator in NRA's legal department Son Kilbourne dashes around with his father's zip but not his thunder...
Ways & means of "applying the heat" to the NRA campaign began to crop up in the news. At Hyde Park President Roosevelt issued an executive order which permitted cancellation of all government contracts with non-NRA manufacturers. In Manhattan Postmaster General Farley talked of prosecuting violators of NRA agreements under the postal fraud statute. In Washington Relief Administrator Harry Lloyd Hopkins announced that the Blue Eagle would get all his spending money. The boycott raised its menacing head when General Johnson inaugurated a "Buy Now" campaign with the buying to be done exclusively from NRA members. To a Baltimore utility...
These rumbling threats from NRA headquarters were matched in spirit by the organizing of 15,000 women to be turned loose on the land as NRA crusaders. In charge of this female army to "ferret out drones" was Miss Mary Hughes, Louisville, Ky. promoter. Already complaints were reaching General Johnson of the terrifying effects of mass emotion stirred up in small towns by impassioned NRA crusaders. The campaign was rapidly passing from a volunteer to a conscription basis...
After two months of the hardest, most spectacular work, General Johnson was beginning to get his second wind. His health was a matter of national concern; if he cracked, the whole NRA campaign might go under. His eyes were swollen from lack of sleep. Flashlamps were making him flinch. His temper was running short. President Roosevelt had to command him to get a night's sleep when he flew to Hyde Park fortnight ago (TIME, August 14). Even the fatherly New York Times last week advised him to "ease...
...General's loud call up steps a small, pert young woman of 27 named Frances Robinson. She is his secretary and shadow. She runs his tumultuous office. She flies with him on his missions about the country. She hovers over him at all press conferences. She is a NRA power...