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...plans to shut down, throw out 25,000 workers, whereas 50,000 cotton garment workers were primed to strike to enforce the President's order. But President Roosevelt was not yet ready to force this issue of his own making to the fighting point. Abruptly he announced a two-week stay of his order, asked the new National Industrial Recovery Board to appoint a three-man committee to investigate and recommend changes...
...Roosevelt, sweltering in the White House Blue Room which lacks the cooling facilities of his regular office, was at work on more measures, fallible in origin but divine in purpose. NRA make-over took much of his time. General Johnson had gone off to Bethany Beach, Del. for a two-week rest and left the President's ear open to Donald Richberg and Madam Secretary Perkins. So significant did newshawks deem the situation that some reported the General's resignation while others telephoned to Bethany Beach to ask him whether he had had a break with his associates...
Sister Fanny stands for goodness as Nicholas stands for evil. But devoted, loyal, bewildered Fanny is slow to size up the situation. Finally she senses that she is up against something that means a fight to the end for all she holds dear. But when she is on a two-week cruise, her innocent husband, Charles, who never ceases to admire Nicholas, succumbs to a wholly insignificant affair with a flower girl. Nicholas learns of this aberration, wields his new weapon with devastating effect...
...soon departing. Three days before the happy interview last week the General himself outlined a plan for a new NRA headed not by one man but by a board of which he himself would be a figurehead chairman. When it was announced that the NRAdministrator would take a two-week rest at the seashore, it was prophesied that he would not return. Pundit Mark Sullivan cruelly suggested that the President was saying to General Johnson: "Here's your hat. I'm sorry you can't stay...
Harvard's representatives will leave from Seattle June 29 and will arrive in Japan where they will be the guests of the Japan Student English Association, sponsors of the conference. Following the conference in Tokyo, the members will be taken on a two-week's tour of southwestern Japan and Manchukuo. All of the expenses of the stay in Japan will be paid by the Japanese organization...