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...especially those inner circlers who are trying to help (or steer) the Defense Advisory Commission in rearming the U. S. A maverick New Dealer, Thurman Arnold necessarily regards the Defense Commission as his natural enemy. It stands for more cooperation among businessmen than he trusts, reminds him unpleasantly of NRA; besides, it may do him out of a job. This week, as Washington's defense parade threatened to march right over him, Thurman Arnold struggled into a uniform of his own design, tried to align himself with the procession. He published a book, The Bottlenecks of Business (Reynal & Hitchcock...
...aside $250,000, invited six U. S. ad agencies to submit plans for an advertising campaign. Last week it announced the winner: Philadelphia's 71-year-old, high-minded N. W. Ayer & Son, which contributed (for $1) the celebrated Blue Eagle to the New Deal's NRA. On the Army's $250.000, Ayer will collect a commission...
...Amherst A. B. and a Ph.D. in economics from the Brookings Institution, taught three years at Cornell, Colorado, North Carolina, quit teaching to be Washington correspondent for the Scripps-Howard newspapers and later an editor of the Baltimore Sun. He went to Washington as executive director of NRA's Consumers' Advisory Board, landed in Portland as Reed's president...
...Senate, where he has cut independently across party lines, Mr. McNary has favored the Wagner Act, the NRA, old age pensions, aid to the farmers, the Securities & Exchange Commission, TVA, the Muscle Shoals development...
Last week some of the New Deal's most agile minds wrestled with the surplus problem. One emergency solution seemed to echo the drastic days of NRA. Its sponsors: a number of New Deal braintrusters, worried businessmen, clearing through the State Department's Assistant-Secretary-at-large Adolf Augustus Berle. Economic Fireman Berle and conferees noted that in 1938 Latin America alone grossed about $1,200,000,000 from overseas sales of coffee, meat, sugar, wool, cotton, hides and skins, wheat, corn. Their idea: to form a kind of Hemispheric Surplus Commodities Corporation to buy up these surpluses...