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Stating that NRA had disregarded the interests of consumers, Dr. Lloyd G. Reynolds, of the Economics Department, speaking on "Corporations and the Courts" in the fourth of the fall series of radio programs sponsored by The Harvard Guardian, called on government to make up its mind between enforced competition under the Sherman Act, or public regulation of industry...
...eliminated rough-and-tumble methods and hitting below the belt, and prevented an outright monopoly of gasoline, but it "has not altered the desire of business men to combine; nor has it enabled you and me to get our gasoline at the lowest possible prices." On the arrival of NRA, "the voice of the consumer was drowned in the din, and prices were successfully raised...
...ability to translate his ideas into sound legislation. When Mr. Landon observed that the President has delayed social progress by insisting on the passage of readymade laws which, after trial, prove to be of inferior workmanship, his statement was accurate and supported by cogent illustrations from recent history. The NRA was the most distressing example of Mr. Roosevelt's leap-before-you-look policy, and accounted for two years of confusion and wasted time in the national economy. The Wagner Act and the Social Security Act, also, are poorly-drafted laws which must be done over if they...
...first Judge Stone ruled against Attorney Donovan, but presently he modified his ruling, which was a major victory for the defense. With the death of NRA, the Government's price-fixing and stabilizing ideas became generally nonstatutory. Strongly supporting defense contentions, however, is many a past remark by President Roosevelt and Secretary Ickes. Last week Judge Stone ordered Attorney Donovan to cease quoting President Roosevelt, but Secretary Ickes is not likely to get off so easily, for he committed his ideas to writing in a letter to none other than the man the prosecution last week accused of being...
...Middle Western States, should raise and fix the whole price level in the area by buying gasoline at artificially high prices from specified independent refiners who came to be called "dancing partners." But Secretary Ickes in 1934, month after he urged oilmen to undertake pool buying under NRA, wrote as follows to Mr. Arnott: "It has been brought to my attention that the market for gasoline and other petroleum products has recently been disturbed by numerous price wars. . . . This has resulted in petroleum products being sold below cost in some areas in order to meet unrestrained competition. . . . Price wars necessarily...