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Four days later Mr. Sloan had an even bigger project afoot. One of the better things desired by many mill owners, who had been having tough sledding for years, was surcease from cutthroat competition. President Sloan called his Institute members together and suggested that they form a code of fair competition. On that day General Hugh Johnson was still an unknown lieutenant of a famed speculator named Bernard Baruch. An offer from the Institute was sent to the President and a month later, before the Recovery Act was passed, Mr. Sloan marched into the White House and slapped a draft...
...strike committee, he had organized the bloody, nine-week-old longshoremen's strike which had finally detonated the general strike. Organizing his own body of strike police, Chairman Bridges declared against violence, prepared to set up a food distribution system from central markets whither householders might go afoot. "If the people can't get food," he said, "the maritime workers and longshoremen will lose the strike...
...public hearings start in September. Representative Dickstein's Nazi hunt and Senator Black's year-old investigation of ocean and air mails were simmering at summer heat. All told, the 3rd Congress had promised its members 23 investigations and provided $655,500 to last until January. Inquisitions afoot...
...There are no more tycoons to be battled. The battalions of NRA propagandists have been disbanded. National code-making has almost petered out. Last week it was announced that barber shops, laundries, building managements, restaurants and local transportation would be encouraged to form their regional codes. Biggest NRA project afoot was not the making of codes, but a big meeting in Washington to air code criticisms, suggest revisions...
...born author, who wrote Tobacco Road and God's Little Acre, novels dealing with the mudsills of Georgia's white society, started the rumpus by writing an article for the Communist New Masses, relating much the same facts, charging that a reign of terror for Negroes was afoot, and adding...