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...rocky road beset by amendments since hearings began last May, the Black-Connery Wages & Hours Bill, spurred on by Franklin Roosevelt, nevertheless leaped over barrier after barrier, seemed headed for enactment. Out of the Joint Congressional Committee chairmanned by Senator Black and the late Representative Connery, this "little NRA" jumped: 1) the Senate Education and Labor Committee. 2) passive resistance by the A. F. of L., later modified, 3) the Senate by 56 to 28, 4) Congresswoman Mary T. Norton's House Labor Committee...
...labor strife have irritated capitalists. Five years ago two-thirds of Commonwealth's student body went on strike, presumably because the institution's brand of radicalism was not radical enough, and several years later its young Director Lucien Koch resigned to take a job with the NRA as assistant economic analyst in the consumers' division. He was succeeded by a New Orleans Socialist named Richard Whitten, who left last autumn to work for his party. Commonwealth's most energetic official remained Charlotte ("Chucky") Moskowitz, executive secretary and wife of Lucien Koch's brother Raymond. Redhaired...
...pure vitriol, that gasping Old Guardsmen cried out in anguish against Charley Michelson's "Smear Hoover" campaign. When the New Dealers rode into power he was called in to explain them to the country. He smoothed press relations during the Bank Holiday. He wrote speeches trying to sell NRA. In fact, he was supposed to write all the good speeches for the President, his Cabinet, his leaders...
...common. Whalen was an ambitious man but he had none of the Walker flair, and after two years Walker was glad to get rid of him. Since then Grover Whalen's talents have been devoted to private business and movements for civic improvement, chief of which was heading NRA's headquarters in Manhattan. Last year, he got an even bigger job: head promoter for New York City's World's Fair of 1939. Once more his tailored form was produced in rotogravure and then the lightning struck. He was chosen as the New Deal, anti-Tammany...
...Hampshire's Senator Bridges, who blew his horn on behalf of the U. S. mails, blew again with the suggestion that the child labor provisions be removed from the Act and submitted to Congress separately on their own merits. Columnist Hugh S. Johnson, former NRA boss, asked belligerently: "Why did both Mr. Lewis and Mr. Green seek modifications? . . . Because it threatens the very existence of unionism. Because it is utterly Fascistic...