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...longtime (1928-56) Federal District Judge in Oklahoma City, who presided over the sensational trial (1933) of the two dozen kidnapers of Oilman Charles Urschel and allowed newsreels in the courtroom; ruled (1934) that price-fixing by the New Deal's National Recovery Administration was unconstitutional, and denounced NRA as a violation of states' rights; as early as 1948 was one of three Federal judges in Oklahoma to order desegregation in state universities; in Oklahoma City...
Alphabetical Nostrums. Middle-aged readers may feel a touch of the old nostalgia as the AAA, TVA, NRA and all the other alphabetical nostrums pass in review. As Schlesinger moves from agency to agency, he frequently comes through with accurate and telling thumbnail sketches of the crowd around F.D.R. There is Henry Wallace ("At a certain point, his mind seemed almost to break through a sonic barrier . . . into rhapsodic mysticism"), who could speculate whether the reverse side of the U.S. Great Seal, with its all-seeing eye. did not prefigure the Second Coming of the Messiah. There is erratic, hard...
...clear and orderly description of how the New Deal agencies came into being, were fought over, adjusted themselves to success or failure. But as Schlesinger tells it. the outcome was almost always success: he even purports to show something good-a sense of solidarity-resulting from the wreck of NRA. Like his hero F.D.R.. Author Schlesinger proves himself a thoroughgoing pragmatist; he sticks close to events, rarely offers perspective on them. There is little effort to explore the philosophical roots of the New Deal, and there is no attempt at long-range assessment beyond the reiterated conviction that...
Harriman abandoned the Republican Party in 1928 to vote for Al Smith, four years later pushed for the presidential election of his fellow squire, Franklin Roosevelt. After a series of Washington jobs in the NRA '305, Harriman spent 1941 to 1943 in London and Moscow as F.D.R.'s special-missions contact and Lend-Lease expediter, was Ambassador to Russia (1943-46), then to the Court of St. James's (1946), and Truman's Secretary of Commerce in the same year. Two years later, he was Marshall Plan ambassador in Europe, then Special Assistant to the President...
...Swanson, who had been named Navy Secretary by Franklin Roosevelt. One of Byrd's first Senate votes was cast for Roosevelt's one attempt to carry out his campaign pledge for economy: a half billion cut in federal spending, mostly in veteran's benefits. But with NRA and its $3 billion relief provision, Byrd broke with Roosevelt-and stayed broken, both with F.D.R. and his successor, Harry Truman, who once snapped that there were "too many Byrds in the Senate...