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...which Eide Norena. soprano, and Mrs. Roosevelt's White House guest, Flautist René Le Roy, performed. The President and his Lady held the third of their five annual State Receptions, for Congress. Notable absentees: the Vice President and Mrs. Garner, the dean of the Senate and Mrs. Borah...
...When its voice cannot be heard it might as well not exist. Hence General Johnson, whose NRA did not begin teething until after Congress adjourned last June, was troubled for months by the complaints of old guard businessmen, but not by the caterwauling of Congressmen. To be sure. Senators Borah and Nye wrote him protesting that NRA was driving small businesses to the wall and turning trusts loose on a career of price fixing. To be sure, they appealed to the President and were given to understand that the Federal Trade Commission might be given power to protect small businessmen...
...Senator Borah offered an amendment to the Recovery Act ending the suspension of the anti-trust laws. Said he: "I do not think there can be any compensation for unjust prices charged to the public. I do not think there can be any compensation for the destruction of small business. ... I do not believe it is possible to protect [the small businessman] so long as we permit these combinations in restraint of trade, so long as we permit the great combines to fix prices...
General Johnson's hot answer loosed hotter Senatorial wrath. Reiterating his charges of monopoly and ruin for small businesses, Senator Borah boomed. "When those things are remedied I will cease my efforts and not till then." And Mr. Nye cried eloquently: "Nero may rant and roar, but all the browbeating he may resort to will not destroy, though it may delay, knowledge of what NRA policy is doing ... to the end that the plunderbund may enjoy larger monopoly...
...Gallienne complained seriously about the "undistinguished, commonplace, not to say common, appearance of most of our public men." He suggested putting them in wigs. The editors of Life contrived a more childish and practical solution. A page of four photographs called "Whiskerreotypes" in the current issue shows Senator Borah in a Chick Sale goatee. Vice President Garner in a facial fringe that makes him look like President Grant, Postmaster Farley in the handlebar mustachio of an oldtime bar keeper, and New York's onetime Mayor O'Brien in a shovel beard...