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...that as it may, the event was legitimately historic. More than any other man, Motorman Ford personifies to millions the triumph of the rugged virtues of the American Way. He had consistently and successfully resisted NRA. He is currently doing battle with the National Labor Relations Board and C. I. O. And for the romantic touch dear to the reading American, this was to be his first meeting with the President since the World War days when Henry Ford manufactured submarine chasers for Assistant Secretary of the Navy Franklin Roosevelt...
...cost as determined from a number of basing points. This meant that when the Government asked for cement bids, the figures were almost always identical even to the fourth decimal point. Calling this practice price collusion at the expense of the consumer. Franklin Roosevelt tried to halt it with NRA, through the Attorney General's office, and finally through the Federal Trade Commission, which has been investigating cement for ten months. Impatient of results, Mr. Roosevelt last month directed that all Federal departments buy their cement through the Treasury's procurement division, that bids be restricted...
...been allowed to print, day before Liberty appeared he released the transcripts of 16 press conferences (out of the 337 held in the 1933-37 term), presumably picked as the best expression of Rooseveltian philosophy. Of all those released, the "horse-and-buggy" conference, held three days after NRA was invalidated by the Supreme Court, was most famous...
...care to comment any on the NRA...
...Here followed an unusual 6,000-word Presidential elegy on death of the NRA...