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...Hyde Park to continue his vacation. He again commented on the height of the corn as he drove in the gate, said it had grown considerably during his absence. Like his corn, his Recovery Program was last week rapidly approaching full growth. He had signed the oil, steel and lumber codes, thereby bringing three of the nation's largest basic industries under the Blue Eagle in a single week. He was not surprised to hear that Administrator Johnson hoped to round out the Herculean task of setting U.S. industry on its feet by mid-November. With the cotton...
With the Presidential special standing in Washington's Union Station one evening last week-puffing, impatient to be off with Mr. Roosevelt to Hyde Park- General Johnson in a few hours put across three big deals: wangled codes out of the lumber, steel and oil industries. Thus was a grave deadlock broken, the first major industries (aside from textiles) brought under the code provision of the Recover...
...Consumer Blue Eagles were posted up on the White House doors last week. Once more in his own office. President Roosevelt took his recovery program in hand in an attempt to break the jam on steel, oil. lumber and coal codes. He was told that the NRA campaign was going into its most crucial phase. To him were made confidential reports of the precarious labor situation in the coal fields growing out of last week's bituminous code hearing (see p. 9). Though the Pennsylvania mines were again manned, the temper of the miners was still dangerously explosive...
...reached the point of electing a successor to President Victor William Purdy they chose an osteopath more typical than any of the foregoing. Perrin Thacher Wilson, the elect, unable to enter Harvard regularly, studied mathematics there as a special student. Meanwhile he earned his living as chauffeur for a lumber dealer. Later he delivered cakes and studied automobile repairing, eventually entered the American School of Osteopathy at Kirksville...
...still ringing with the tale of a trapped bull, they were startled by an echo from the past-the sound of a bear trapped five years ago and still clawing at the trap. In Chicago's U. S. District Court, President Edward Wellington Backus of Backus-Brooks Co. (lumber) of Minneapolis filed suit against President Gustavus Franklin Swift of Swift & Co.. Allen F. Moore (onetime Republican Congressman from Illinois), Herbert J. Blum (oldtime grain operator). His charge: that in 1928 he sold short 950,000 bushels of July corn, that they and others long 9,000,000 bushels...