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...member during his latter years on the bench. Predicted Democrat Reed: "I'm sure we'll have plenty of trouble." ¶ Vice chairman: Michigan State President John A. Hannah, 55. Republican Hannah served as Assistant Secretary of Defense for Manpower and Personnel from 1953-54, was an NRA poultry code administrator in the early 19305, became President of Michigan State in 1941 and nursed it from a modest college to a farflung, football-happy giant. As Assistant Secretary, Hannah had a hand in implementing desegregation in the armed forces. No fire-eater, he once expressed cautious sympathy...
...decided that outside union organizers were responsible, refused to allow a National Labor Relations Board election. National Recovery Act Administrator General Hugh Johnson threatened him with "jail in 24 hours." but Weir stood firm even under desperate White House coaxing. His hot court battle against a key NRA clause forbidding company unions ended in victory. A federal judge held that NRA applied only to interstate commerce and did not cover Weirton, an event widely held as the beginning of the end for NRA. To this day, Weirton is one of the last few steel strongholds with a company union...
...headlines and a measure of public recognition. A small-town Kentucky lawyer. Reed served Herbert Hoover as counsel for the Federal Farm Board (1929-32) and the RFC (1932-35). As Franklin Roosevelt's Solicitor General (1935-38), he studiously defended such New Deal staples as NRA (he lost the case) and the Wagner-Connery Labor Relations Act (he won) before the Supreme Court. Once, in a rare dramatic moment, he collapsed from exhaustion in the middle of his argument...
...side that year because he liked Alfred E. Emith and disliked G.O.P. tariff policies. Four years later, he was for an old friend of the family, Franklin Delano Roosevelt, and in 1933 he became New York chairman of the President's Re-Employment Campaign Committee, a unit of NRA. For Averell Harriman, that was the beginning of a Federal Government career that led him to one of the longest and most varied records any man has ever achieved in the administrative branch of the U.S. Government...
...Harriman's remarkable series of Government posts centered around these major assignments: 1934-35, a division administrator, then a special assistant to the administrator, and then chief administrative officer of NRA: 1940-41, an executive in the Office of Production Management; 1941, special missions to London and then to Moscow for President Roosevelt; 1941-42, Lend-Lease expediter in London with rank of minister; 1943-46, Ambassador to Russia; 1946, Ambassador to the Court of St. James's; 1946-48, Secretary of Commerce; 1948-50, roving EGA ambassador in Europe; 1950-51, Special Assistant to the President...