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...last year they produced 430,000,000 tons of soft coal. On each of these tons producers lost an average of 11?. This state of affairs in the $3,500,000,000 coal industry was no 1936 phenomenon; save for a brief respite under NRA it has been the normal condition of coal since 1923. After NRA came the Guffey Coal Act (also found unconstitutional) and finally last spring the Guffey-Vinson Act creating a seven-man National Bituminous Coal Commission. This body, with powers much like those of an NRA code authority (minus jurisdiction over labor practices...
...jobholders who rode into the national limelight on the coattails of the New Deal, few have shone more wonderfully than baldish, hairy-handed, big-talking Major George L. Berry. Since 1933 he has been a member o. the NRA's Labor Advisory Board of Cotton Textile and the NRA's Mediation Board for Steel & Coal, divisional NRA administrator, custodian of the NRA's bones after its demise, Co- ordinator for Industrial Cooperation, chairman of John L. Lewis' pro-Roosevelt Labor's Non-Partisan League, and finally junior U. S. Senator from Tennessee. Last week...
Transition- Year before last the Court's nine old men were bathed in historic limelight when they waded into the New Deal's first crop of economic measures, invalidating NRA and AAA and upholding the Government's right to cancel the gold clauses in all contracts. Last term the nine were the centre of a political death struggle unequaled since the Civil War, brought about by Franklin Roosevelt's desire to insure the constitutionality of his future legislative program by adding sympathetic Justices to the bench. The excitement of the current court term will be different...
...Already grey-haired and sober as an undergraduate, he was well liked at the University of Virginia. Starting out at the bottom in Hyatt Bearings Division of General Motors, he rose with meteoric rapidity through industrial and public relations to a vice-presidency. During the heyday of NRA he was one of Hugh Johnson's aides until called to Big Steel. Now prematurely white-haired, handsome Ed Stettinius is genial, excessively energetic, has the happy faculty of charming even those whom he defeats, enjoys society with his wife, three children...
...Most sensational probe was that in Texas in 1926, during Governor "Ma'' Ferguson's term, when a school superintendent testified an American Book Co. salesman had asked him how he would like to have his $3,600 salary doubled. During the NRA textbook code hearings, however, a publisher estimated $500,000 was spent by the industry in an unspecified period for dinners for book buyers. Most agents and educators still see nothing wrong in an agent reporting openings for better jobs to teachers and officials to whom he hopes to sell books...