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Imbued with a desire to be a "small, pale crusader" against greed and selfishness, she landed a job in 1934 with the crusading NRA, soon bossed it in New York. To settle labor disputes, the biggest part of her job, she developed a technique of mowing down disputants with a machine-gun delivery of tough, sensible talk, backed up with hair-trigger thinking and many a trick learned in Tammany politics. Sample: while temporarily serving as assistant WPA director for New York, she was hemmed in in her office one day by a "lie-down" strike of dissatisfied employes...
Brooklyn, home of Dodgerism, target of radio comedians,* and a maze to Manhattan taxi drivers, is also a city of unsubmissive businessmen. In 1935 Brooklyn's four poultry-marketing Schechter brothers defied the National Recovery Administration, and the Supreme Court threw NRA out in the famed "sick chicken" case. Last week a Brooklyn shipbuilder, Bernard A. Moran, became the first U.S. employer to challenge the War Labor Board's powers under the new Connally-Smith-Harness anti-strike...
Maloney stood pat on his bill. Close-cropped, 60-year-old Arthur Whiteside, veteran of many an earlier Washington war (he was with World War I's War Industries Board, NRA and 0PM), prepared to move to the capital again. The U.S. civilian, for the moment, was getting almost too much attention...
...other hand, the several hundred who credited T. R. with his kid cousin's pet agencies like the NRA and the WPA weren't serious no matter what the Times may like to say, and his collection of animal heads, while famous, is on a par with the more prevalent Mr. Jones of railroad prominence...
...front tunnel. Her father was a doctor who preferred mining to medicine, died leaving $23,000 debts and some dubious mining claims. So Dot went to work, first in a Seattle department store, then in San Francisco, then in Washington as a $30-a-week typist for the old NRA. In her spare time in the capitol she pawed through old mining records, finally traced her father's claims. That got her started. In no time at all she located most of his mines, ousted claim-jumpers, sold one mine to Baltimore's Rustless Iron & Steel Corp...