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...spelled out intercompany agreements on production and prices during the chaotic Depression '30s-agreements which, like the New Deal's own NRA, tried to limit production to get prices back to a profitable level...
...sources of this cataclysm go back far beyond the Truman era to the early days of the New Deal. First in NRA and later in the Wagner Labor Relations Act, the New Deal provided the shield for a new labor organizing drive. And it provided a mass of new federal machinery to regulate employer-union relationships...
While he was board chairman of the Union Pacific, Harriman went to Washington as one of Franklin Roosevelt's "tame millionaires" to help out in NRA. His old friend Harry Hopkins-whom he had met at a Long Island croquet party in pre-New-Deal days-eventually pulled him into the White House vortex. Harriman's first big job for F.D.R. was to work out the provisions of Lend-Lease aid to Britain. His second assignment was to get aid to Russia, and in 1943 he was appointed Ambassador to Moscow. Harriman was never dazzled by the Communist...
...Harriman's "talents as a statesman, as an administrator, and as a great liberal deeply devoted to the fundamental purposes of the Democratic Party and to the welfare of the American people." Harriman, the pleasantly haggard millionaire who has been a New-Fair Dealer since he became an NRA administrator in 1934, stepped forward to do his best. He spoke in loud, firm tones: "Foreign and domestic policies are indivisible ... If the voices of hesitation prevail, we would destroy what we have built and we would be on the road to World War III ... The Republicans never change, they...
...Eleanor Morgan Satterlee, a granddaughter of J. P. Morgan, died of cancer last year at 46, Park Avenue gossips set up a buzz-buzz over her will. She had bequeathed her attorney, well-to-do Sol Rosenblatt, 51 (Harvardman, General Hugh Johnson's right-hand man in NRA, onetime counsel to the Democratic National Committee), the residuary estate of $200,000. To her favorite psychiatrist, Dr. Richard ("Darling Dick'') Hoffmann, 64, on whom many of the gossips would have bet, she left only an oil painting. Last week in a Manhattan court, Mrs. Satterlee's sister...