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With virtually no bait remaining to induce businessmen to accept codes, and no force to compel them to do so, NRA now exists as a skeleton statistical organization whose chief job is to look up facts & figures to prove how good conditions were under the Blue Eagle, how bad after the Eagle fell to earth...
Wagner Bill. In order to put a stop to this retreat, the A. F. of L. wanted: 1) a ban on company unions; 2) power for the Labor Relations Board to compel labor elections in any plant; 3) the right to give orders to all employes of a business once it succeeded in organizing a bare majority. These three things the Wagner Bill provides...
When John Pierpont Morgan I, pacing his office at No. 23 Wall St., heard the decision dissolving the Standard Oil Trust, he growled: "How in hell is any court going to compel a man to compete with himself?" Few blocks away at No. 26 Broadway, home office of Standard Oil of N. J., thin, aging John D. Rockefeller took a calmer view. "We must obey the Supreme Court," he advised his six associates. "Our splendid, happy family must scatter...
...decision was that alcohol-gasoline blends were less satisfactory and more expensive than pure gasoline with prices as they were. Nonetheless, farmers desperate for earnings have pushed laws to require mixtures of the two fuels. Nebraska, Iowa, South Dakota and California have been lined up. The policy is to compel the use of home-produced alcohol in the blend or to forego taxes on alcohol used in motors. To head off such trends, President Axtell J. Byles of the American Petroleum Institute last week offered to put up $15,000, if President Garvan of the Chemical Foundation also...
...consider that if a nation insists on attacking another the other nations should combine to compel it to stop...