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...subject of utility holding companies nearly everyone had had his say. Franklin Roosevelt had asked for what practically amounted to their abolition. Powermen and investors had wrung their hands in loud anguish. Senator Wheeler had favorably reported the bill. Secretary Roper's Business Advisory Council had counseled moderation. Senator Norris had lectured the Senate with giant charts showing the tentacles of the power octopus. Young Legalites Corcoran and Cohen, who drafted the bill, had given their advice privily in the cloakrooms. The whole Senate had enjoyed ten days of debate. Wiseacres sensed that 67 proposed amendments would soon...
Notable was the official opening fanfare. Secretary of Commerce Roper was on hand to hope that the Federal exhibit would be ''of educational value to the country." Undersecretary of State Phillips assured California that out of Japan's commercial invasion of the U. S. would come "a cooperative solution." Postmaster General Farley struck off a big 3? commemorative stamp which was sure to get him into more philatelic hot water because the most prominent feature was the Ford building. And at 8 p. m. on opening day, President Roosevelt from Washington radioed that he hoped...
...Franklin Roosevelt once more had forced on him two ticklish and related questions: How to keep business satisfied without yielding to its desires, and how to permit business to let off its critical steam without busting out in open denunciation of the New Deal. Fortnight ago Secretary Roper's Advisory & Planning Council of 50 tycoons came in handy when the President used its call on him as evidence that the critical Chamber of Commerce did not represent the reaction of business to the New Deal, but last week the 50 tycoons had to be placated. Council Chairman Henry Plimpton...
...potent business lobbies in Washington. Composed of much bigger business wigs than the rank & file of Chambermen-men like U. S. Steel's Myron Taylor, American Telephone & Telegraph's Walter Gifford, Chase National Bank's Winthrop Aldrich, General Electric's Gerard Swope-the so-called Roper Council drops into the White House for frequent Sunday evening chats. Radicals regard it suspiciously as a hotbed of Fascism...
Having received the Roper Council's protestations of allegiance, President Roosevelt briskly dismissed the Chamber's criticism as something to be expected when social reforms were taking shape. He said he had run into the same thing when pushing social legislation as a Senator in the New York Legislature. As then, he now believes that the majority of businessmen actually favor his measures. Trade organizations seldom voice the real opinion of the businessmen they are supposed to represent, he declared, and he was sure that by & large Business is with him. What interested him about the Chamber speeches...