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...Most of the complaints before you were routine complaints . . . the backwash of run-of-the-mill NRA Administration. . . . My first attempt to [get at complaints] was the Darrow Board which I set up in good faith. ... It was a political wailing wall. . . . There was not one fair hearing before it. ... It packed the record with framed testimony .. . hazed witnesses...
...India, north of Bombay, last week flashed exciting words. "Experts in anthropology" announced that they had found fossil remains of a pygmy man 15 in. tall, a pygmy cow 18 in. high. The Press earnestly began gathering learned speculations on this "cradleland of the human race." But when the backwash of inquiries engulfed the town of Vadnagar, local authorities called the story a hoax, either the work of a practical joker or, as the Associated Press found, "the result of an old Hindu superstition that spreading a false rumor sometimes aids toward solving a domestic problem...
Whether palatable or not for native consumption, it is none the less true that one cannot enjoy the luxury of high tariffs and inflation at home without occasionally experiencing the backwash from their reverberations abroad. Though other countries may squirm under the humiliation of importations from abroad, they at least are in a position to collect when the day of reckoning comes around...
...National Recovery Administration to put down the labor controversies stirred up by NIRA. Both disputes flunked the National Labor Board because nowhere in the law was that agency, an extra-legal body backed only by the President's prestige, given authority to force settlements in the backwash of NRA code-making. The Ford and coal strikes exemplified the stubborn militancy of Labor to overreach itself, the stubborn militancy of Capital to resist to the limit...
Meanwhile the backwash of the tidal wave engulfed 1,533 small ships, damaged 85, sent alarming shivers along the steel spine of the liner Heian Mara, 400 mi. out at sea. Rushing on, the tidal backwash struck the Island of Hawaii (3,500 mi. from Japan) as a loft. wave which made things exciting on the beach. In Tokyo, while efficient Japanese clerks totaled up the disaster statistics. Director General Sinichi Kumitomi of the Central Seismological Observatory said: "I believe that this earthquake was more violent at its epicentre than that of 1923," which laid the greater part of Tokyo...