Word: hughe
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Accomplished Fact. Conversely, a thing which made it hard for any New Dealer to consider scrapping NRA was that it was an accomplished fact, huge and substantial. In Herbert Hoover's Department of Commerce Building it rambles through a vast suite of offices. In the seat where Hugh Johnson once sat alone, now sits the National Industrial Recovery Board with S. Clay Williams as its chairman. Beside him sit his four horsemen: Leon C. Marshall, political economist; Arthur D. Whiteside, executive of Dun & Bradstreet; Sidney Hillman, labor executive; Walton H. Hamilton, lawyer and economist-a potent team whose days...
...getting a "re-employment agreement" (i. e. preliminary code) that suited them. He got a code that specified not a minimum but an average wage, and he got it without fireworks and without making enemies except in the labor camp. In fact he made decided friends of Hugh Johnson, Donald Richberg and Daniel Roper. He also got along very well with Franklin Roosevelt-over the package of Camels on the President's desk...
Richberg's Rescue. When Hugh Johnson was his whipping boy, Franklin Roosevelt let him fight their public brawls unassisted. But after his right-hand-man had been publicly abused for nearly a week, the President came to Donald Richberg's rescue. This he did last week by making public two letters...
...John Lewis' animosity toward Donald Richberg goes back to the bitter personal situation of last September when Richberg supplanted Hugh Samuel Johnson in NRA. In his windy memoirs, currently running in the Saturday Evening Post, Johnson reveals that Lewis, one of his few great friends in Labor, at that time wired him from a sickbed: IF I HAD BEEN THERE THIS WOULD NEVER HAVE HAPPENED. Thus Laborite Lewis now finds himself personally allied with Johnson, driven out of NRA largely by Labor's fire, and leagued against Richberg, the man Labor originally helped boost into...
...came in first (TIME, Oct. 29). But U. S. planes averaged best. To impress this superiority upon South America-and also, for the usual goodwilling-Elliott Roosevelt, 24, has lately been promoting an 18,500-mi. air derby round North & South America, to be directed by onetime Cavalryman Hugh Samuel Johnson...