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...General Johnson, the sort of oldtime cavalryman who would bite a horse's ear if he lost his quirt, needed any moral support it was supplied last week in the person of Bernard Mannes Baruch, his great & good friend. The tall, smiling Jew with the fine thoughtful head, arrived in Washington just as he had done almost every week for the past 20 years. But this arrival set official Washington by the ears. Amid a blaze of unwelcome publicity, he started a report for President Roosevelt on the recovery plan and a set of recommendations on U. S. policy...
Codes, Codes, Codes. Though President Roosevelt was off vacationing and Cabinet absences left Attorney General Cummings the Government's ranking officer on the job, Messrs. Baruch & Johnson had plenty of company in Washington last week. There was scarcely a private dining or meeting room in town which was not packed with the members of this or that trade group haggling over a code regulating minimum wages, maximum hours of work, prices and output which would make them eligible to do business under the Industrial Recovery Act. General Johnson flew to Manhattan during the week to advise other trade associations...
President Wilson's War Industries Board brought to Washington two men destined to play a large part in General Johnson's later life. One was the board's chairman, Mr. Baruch. The other was George Nelson Peek of Moline, Ill., who had spent 25 years with plow-making concerns in the Midwest. Meeting for the first time under Wartime pressure, this trio found that they all thought and acted pretty much alike about their joint problems. Each spoke his mind bluntly. Each dug hard for facts. Each could put his theories into practice. A three-cornered friendship...
...rally industry into line was General Hugh Samuel Johnson, West Pointer, lawyer, boys' book writer, associate of Bernard Marines Baruch and originator and administrator of the War-time selective draft. Like Col. Sawyer. General Johnson, as Administrator for Industrial recovery, was given the counsel of the Secretaries of Commerce. Agriculture, Labor; Attorney General. Director of the Budget, Federal Trade Commissioner Chairman. These in turn began last week to draw keymen from the ranks of economists, businessmen, labor leaders to make up advisory boards. The Industrial Advisory Board appointed by Secretary Roper included: General Motors President Alfred Pritchard Sloan...
Favorite in the Coy Maid Purse, at Belmont Park (L. I.), last week, was Bernard M. Baruch's two-year-old filly. Watch Her. At the barrier. Watch Her succeeded in throwing her jockey, Tony Pascuma. She ran riderless down the chute which cuts across the infield, then twice around the 1½-mi. track, and finally, before anyone could catch her, jumped a fence and started toward her stable. A mounted policeman caught her running toward the third jump on a nearby steeplechase course, brought her back to the post. By this time-32 minutes after the horses...