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...NRA the Sponsor...
Philip Maguire, 44, of Plainfield, N.J., made his entrance into Washington as a young lawyer in the NRA. From there he marched through the Government's alphabet of bureaus. He helped work out the food-stamp plan. He served on WPB. spent three years in the Army, returned to serve on the CPA, went to Greece with the first military mission. He stayed to direct Greek trade and commerce, then returned to take charge of the Administration's program for relieving unemployment. He is the President's expert on public-works programs...
Dubinsky managed what probably no other labor leader could have: he wangled loans for the bankrupt International union from commercial banks. After he became president of the International in 1932, Dubinsky got his real chance in the New Deal. Seeing NRA coming, Dubinsky had softened up the industry with quick, organizational strikes, picked up 160,000 new members in six months. When NRA was nullified by the Supreme Court, Dubinsky announced that he would strike any employer who tried to back out of its agreements. Says he slyly: "First you get a whip, and then when everyone knows you have...
...years in the Senate, Robert Wagner had indeed had his shining hours. As a driving, unspectacular protagonist of the New Deal, Wagner had sponsored such far-reaching social legislation as the Social Security Act, the U.S. Housing Act, the National Industrial Recovery Act (NRA), the Civilian Conservation Corps and the Wagner Labor Relations...
Died. S. (for Samuel) Clay Williams, 64, longtime chairman of the board of the R. J. Reynolds Tobacco Co. (Camels), successor to General Hugh S. Johnson as boss of NRA; of a heart attack; in Winston-Salem...