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...Among Chambermen the Dry Goods proposal for a little NRA would find little sympathy. Moreover, the Dry Goods Association has actually been on the Roosevelt bandwagon for a good part of the New Deal for the simple reason that the New Deal has been good for retail trade...
...occasion was the fourth annual convention of the U. S. Chamber of Commerce under the New Deal. Most of the delegates devoutly hoped it would be the last. In 1933 the Chambermen meekly accepted the President's personal proffer of a "partnership" between Government and Business. A year later they were already so scared by the implications of that partnership that President Roosevelt wrote a testy note telling them to stop crying "Wolf!" Last year he not only failed to send his greetings to the assembled Chambermen but conspicuously publicized his opinion that they no longer voiced the real...
...bond that united the Chambermen last week was their common hatred of Franklin D. Roosevelt. Pitch of the Chamber tune was sounded by Philip J. Fay, a San Francisco insurance man and a Chamber vice president. At a preliminary session he orated: "Today the individual is no longer free to move as he pleases in the field of his lawful affairs. He must wait to get the 'go' sign from Washington before he can sow a field of wheat, plant a couple of rows of potatoes, fire a fellow who is stirring up trouble in the factory...
...High Chambermen, who had maintained a semblance of co-operation with the White House, pattered up & down the Chamber's corridors trying to still the storm of abuse. Henry Ingraham Harriman, outgoing president, keynoted moderately: "The chief objection is not to the basic principles underlying many of these measures but to the extremes to which they are carried." Secretary of Commerce Roper rode a herd on the impatient Chambermen, trying to prevent a stampede...
...Chamber had differed too much for Harper Sibley's "friendly spirit" to impress the White House. By one swift maneuver President Roosevelt stripped the Chamber of its right to speak for U. S. Business. Before the Chambermen had time to pack their grips, safely seated in the Executive Offices was another body of businessmen, pledging almost unqualified support to the New Deal. That body was the Department of Commerce's Business Advisory & Planning Council, which has lately emerged as one of the most potent business lobbies in Washington. Composed of much bigger business wigs than the rank & file...