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...eyed gentleman of 45, he is one of that populous capital group who appear to know everything about everybody but tell nothing about themselves. He has been variously a newshawk, an ambulance driver for the A.E.F. in France, an adviser to the coal interests when they drew up their NRA code...
...Minute Coffee Shop in Madison. Between cakes & coffee he absorbed the principles of economics and labor from Wisconsin's famed Professor John R. Commons. Later he taught economics at Antioch College, where his students called him "Uncle Billy." He has been a careerist in mediation and arbitration-for NRA, for the petroleum industry, finally (in 1934) for the railroads as chairman of the National Mediation Board. So good & fair at his calling is William Leiserson that he is often asked to mediate outside the railway field. In his last such important chore, ruling that messenger boys come under...
...Henderson then was on his way out of crumbling NRA, which he had served as director of Research and Planning, chief economist, member of its short-lived National Industrial Recovery Board. He subsequently fell so low that in 1936 he had to ask Democratic Press-agent Charlie Michelson for a $50-a-week job with the Democratic National Campaign Committee in Manhattan...
...charge of the world's ''greatest mass demonstration of industry and commerce," the NRA parade of September 1933. With 254,475 in line, the parade marched from 1:30 until 8 p.m.-past Eleanor Roosevelt, three Governors, numerous notables, including Mr. Whalen...
Died. Jacob Maged, 54, Jersey City tailor who in 1934 was jailed for three days because he charged 35? instead of 40? to press a suit of clothes, thus violating an NRA code; of cancer; in Jersey City...