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Wild Bill Donovan and 56 other high-priced oil company attorneys said that that was precisely what they had been told to do by the NRA...
...time last week was spent in explaining that he did not mean what he had said. He had to tell the Advisory Council not to take too seriously the trust-busting speeches of Harold Ickes and Robert Jackson. He had to explain that he had no intention of reviving NRA evenin a modified form. When his talk of a supercommittee on co-operacy aroused the jealousy of Congressmen and the suspicions of his liberal advisers, he countered with a White House invitation to little businessmen. But his most vigorous backtracking was on the subject of holding companies...
Before going to the White House the five had lunch with Donald Richberg who represents the spirit of NRA which still flutters in the back of Franklin Roosevelt's mind. Mr. Richberg was supposed to precede the others to the White House to inform the President of their mood and current notions. Whether by accident or design, they kept Mr. Richberg talking until just before their 5 p. m. appointment. What went on when they entered the President's office was not disclosed. It appeared afterward that while there had been no criminations from either side, there...
Victorious in defending eight major New Deal laws before the Supreme Court, Solicitor General Reed suffered three defeats, in cases involving NRA, AAA and the Bankhead Act (where a combination of overwork and hostility from the bench brought him to a courtroom collapse). After the AAA case his dark, lively wife, Winifred, long active in politics as registrar general of the D. A. R., performed the most audacious political feat of Washington's 1936 social season by inviting all the Supreme Court Justices to dinner...
Authorities expressed the opinion that this meeting was a preliminary step toward some now cooperative venture, such as the NRA, between government and industry...