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Most important trade code up for a NRA hearing last week was Steel's. Its provision for company unions as a means of collective bargaining between companies and their workers threatened a major deadlock. NRA looked forward fearfully to a knock-down-&-drag-out fight. General Johnson had bluntly hinted to steelmen that they could not qualify the law by such labor clauses. When the hearing opened President Robert Patterson Lament of the Iron & Steel Institute (since leaving Washington as President Hoover's Secretary of Commerce) announced amid great applause that the industry had agreed to knock...
...House of Morgan large influence in the power field but by no means control. Partner Whitney: "It has not always been J. P. Morgan & Co.'s policies that have been adopted by a long shot. I don't mean that there was a knock-down and drag-out fight but we often defer to the operating heads in matters of policy...
...most noteworthy factors in the game. "Carolina has no excuse," he stated, "Your Harvard team overwhelmed us, but we feel that it was not lack of opposition on our part, but excellent playing by your men. Harvard will give any team going a knock-down, drag-out fight...