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Although the public might suspect that what he had in mind was a new kind of NRA, fear that such councils might create dangerous monopolies and collusions, yet talk of fingers on the pulse made better sense than talk of fingers at the throat...
...Expense accounts from NRA heydays rose to haunt high-flying Columnist General Hugh S. Johnson, his son Major Kilbourne, his secretary Frances M. ("Robbie") Robinson. The President vetoed a bill to validate old payments to the three for excess traveling expenses in 1933-34. Unless the Senate overrides the veto the General owes the Government $1,868.61, the Major $3,335, Robbie, $57.19 ∙∙ Bird-wise Quiz Kid Gerard Darrow wept remorsefully as he taxied to an Audubon Society meeting in Chicago, where he knew he would meet Columnist John Kieran, Information Pleaser. Nine-year-old Gerard, who wrote...
...Reynolds Tobacco Co. (Camels); William N. Reynolds, its executive committee chairman; Board Chairman S. Clay Williams, former NRA chairman; President James A. Gray; Vice President James W. Glenn; Sales Manager Edward A. Darr...
...Commercial Artist William B. Phillips of Office of Emergency Management's Information Division, with the aid of N. W. Ayer's Art Director Charles Coiner, had rounded up 24 of the top-drawer U.S. postermen, had already finished two nifty jobs for OPM. Adviser Coiner (who designed NRA's Blue Eagle) did the first one; the other was by Jean Carlu, famed one-armed French posterman, now in the U.S., whose mural blandishments on behalf of French railways were once widely known and chuckled at in France...
...faster prices have risen, the faster has Leon brandished his only effective weapon over them-his jawbone. By last week he reminded even his friends of Hugh Johnson at the climax of NRA. Chrysler, Ford, Hudson, Nash, Studebaker had all announced price increases ranging from $10 to $53 a car. Henderson wired them a request to rescind the increase; Chrysler refused. So Leon let Chrysler have it. If everybody were as uncooperative as Chrysler, he said, the whole country's price stability would be undermined...