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...which began with an opinion on the President's power to call a bank holiday, written personally, in penciled long hand, in the Library of Congress while his chief's first inaugural was in progress March 4, 1933. He recalled the hot legal battles of AAA and NRA; the building of the FBI from a sleuthing unit to an armed force with powers of arrest and a sharp-toothed Federal crime code behind it; the improvement of U. S. prisons, notably the creation of Alcatraz. With special pride he pointed to the new rules for civil procedure...
...absolute safety from this stingaree, every buyer of goods for resale would have to maintain his own national inspection staff. Of course the Wage and Hour Administration intends to jab Section 15 only into suspected conspirators. Nevertheless, Section 15 may well become as famous as NRA...
This last, with some individual quirks, is reflected in his voting record. For: 3.2% beer, NRA, reciprocal tariffs, stock exchange control, work relief, Social Security, overriding the President's bonus veto, Naval Expansion, Supreme Court retirement, repealing publicity for corporate salaries...
Last week Wages & Hours had received 45,000 inquiries from employers and workers who wanted to know whether they come under the standards, whether the U. S. has another NRA. Mr. Andrews made it clear that: 1) the Act resembles NRA in purpose, is wholly different in method. Chief difference: NRA standards were established and applied (with Federal supervision) by industry Code Authorities, whereas the bases for Wage & Hour standards are written into the statute...
Stabilization of oil was first attempted under NRA. When that went under, the job of issuing production quotas was assumed by prorate boards in Texas, Oklahoma, Kansas, Colorado, Illinois, New Mexico, cooperating through an Interstate Oil Compact Commission specially authorized by Congress. This six-State body has no regulatory or price-fixing powers, can act only as a clearinghouse between the various State regulatory boards. That it has been successful is attested both by the present small crude oil inventories and by the Commission's voting three weeks ago to ask Congress to extend it another two years...