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...paid inquisitor just as the Senate's Wall Street investigation in 1933-34 hired Lawyer Ferdinand Pecora. The TVA committee's choice: Francis Biddle, 52, a Philadelphia lawyer who followed Franklin Roosevelt through Groton and Harvard into the New Deal, served as chairman of NLRB in NRA days. Mr. Biddle, although once attorney for such great corporations as the Pennsylvania Railroad and A. & P. chain stores, is an ardent New Dealer, hardly likely to bring much comfort to the private utilities which TVA opposes. His portrait, as a champion of social justice under the New Deal, was painted...
...goods produced under conditions not conforming to the act. The House planned to empower the Labor Department to go into the States and see to it that goods for interstate commerce were legally produced. The House won, and the compromise bill's administrative provisions strongly reminded businessmen of NRA's myriad code authorities. Chief provisions of the bill...
...year-old farmer from the Vale of Nishna near Hastings, Iowa. He wears a permanent red necktie, has some ability at hog-calling, writes for farm papers. In the Roosevelt avalanche of 1932 he slid into the House but was not conspicuously New Dealish (he voted against AAA and NRA) until lately, when he has run with Maury Maverick's "Young Turks...
...took martial law in two States and the best efforts of Secretary Ickes and the NRA to get the price up again. When NRA went out, oilmen relied on proration: no well in the East Texas field was allowed to run off more than a fixed amount (now an average of 20 barrels a day), and an Interstate Oil Compact, promoted by Oklahoma's Governor Ernest Marland, spread production control to six States-Texas, Oklahoma, Kansas, New Mexico, Colorado, Illinois. Carefully the price was built back...
...Secretary of Agriculture had arbitrarily and improperly fixed maximum rates to be charged by the Fred 0. Morgan Sheep Commission Co., of Kansas City. Mo. Attorney for Fred O. Morgan was persuasive Frederick Hill Wood of the potent Manhattan firm of Cravath, de Gersdorff, Swaine & Wood, who argued down NRA and the first Guffey Coal Control Act. Arguing for Fred 0. Morgan, Mr. Wood contended that the Secretary had issued his order without a complete knowledge of the facts gathered by subordinates, had erred in denying the company a chance to view and contest the order before it was finally...