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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Administration which by year-end had induced householders to spend $100,000,000 on home renovation. But the Federal Reserve's latest index of industrial production stood at 74%, almost the exact level of a year earlier, while NRA, without last year's Man of the Year Hugh S. Johnson, broke like a wave on the beach; its price-fixing efforts abandoned; its collective bargaining feature challenged in the courts; its funeral oration read by Alfred P. Sloan of General Motors: "Today the magic possibilities of industrial regimentation and the so-called planned economy no longer cast...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Man of the Year, 1934 | 1/7/1935 | See Source »

When NRA needed a general counsel, Administrator Hugh Johnson thought of his old friend Donald Randall Richberg in Chicago. Temperamentally the two were poles apart but Lawyer Richberg's professional brilliance and political liberalism were the stuff General Johnson wanted. As an inducement Friend Johnson gave Friend Richberg his own top NRA salary, $14,000, took for himself the counsel's smaller pay ($6,800). Thus was Counsel Richberg grandly launched upon the New Deal...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Ants in Pants | 12/31/1934 | See Source »

...Hugh S." chorused the crowd...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PRESIDENCY: The Roosevelt Week: Dec. 24, 1934 | 12/24/1934 | See Source »

...last week in the book department of Hearn's, downtown Manhattan department store, newshawks rushed in to interview an author who was autographing his books, Williams of West Point, Williams on Service. Instead of asking him literary questions, they asked his opinion of NRA. Said General Hugh S. Johnson, author of juveniles: "It is dead as a dodo ?and that is extinct." Then, by way of literary gossip, he dropped the fact that the day before he had had a three-hour talk with President Roosevelt. What that talk concerned the President revealed two days later when he announced...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: War-Without-Profit | 12/24/1934 | See Source »

...nonsense- or nearly so. He knew that the 30,000 unsolicited stories that arrive annually at his offices were treated is fairly as possible. They went in turn to a bright young woman, to an elderly cultured man, to a youthful fiction editor, to Managing Editor Hugh Leamy, finally to Editor Blossom. The first four had authority only to reject. From the driblet of manuscripts that got safely by them, Editor Blossom bought 125 to 150 a year. Yet, sometimes Editor Blossom wondered if perhaps he and his staff were not unconsciously swayed in favor of authors with money-making...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Sealed Fiction | 12/24/1934 | See Source »

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