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...Basic revision of NRA codes to remove restrictions on production, a recommendation of the Darrow Board, will be placed before President Roosevelt for approval soon, it was learned tonight...
...picture, his enemies-and he had many -took many a resentful parting shot. "It ought to have happened nine months ago!" cried North Dakota's Senator Nye, who had quarreled with the General about NRA hardships on small businessmen. "Military man that he was," grumbled old Clarence Darrow, whose three NRA reports marked the start of the reorganization movement, "he went at it like an Army mule driver and when he reached the end of his rope and he realized that the people were about to rise in revolt, he resigned. A very shrewd man!" Cornelia Bryce Pinchot...
...Fritz Rehn. From the Court foreign correspondents are barred. "They don't understand!" tolerantly exclaims Dr. Rehn, who last week was happy to have as his guest a prominent U. S. attorney who would surely understand. With Nazi guards clicking out salutes, President Rehn showed William Ormonde Thompson, Clarence Darrow's onetime partner, all over the Court, now handsomely installed in Prussia's onetime Diet Building. He explained to Mr. Thompson how much better Nazi justice is than the justice it replaced. Take evidence, for example. "The need for factual evidence," Guest Thompson learned, "in many cases has been...
...provision on another of his favorite subjects?forbidding NRA codes to "permit monopolies or monopolistic practices"?and then ultimately voted against the measure. He joined Senator Nye in attacking NRA as a promoter of monopoly at the expense of "the little fellow" and the President gave him the Darrow board to investigate his complaints...
...love Clarence Darrow for his flair for the underdog. . . . Nobody in the world was ever more adept in convincing twelve men that another man, who had bombed somebody, or poisoned somebody, or taken a Kanaka for a ride in the most approved gangster style, or, with some psychopathic urge, taken a little boy out into the Michigan dunes and beaten the life out of him, hadn't either bombed, or poisoned, or ridden or beaten anybody...