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...Washington knew last week that Madam Secretary Perkins was one who wanted changes in NRA. Considering the number of times she and Mr. Richberg had been in session with the President it seemed not at all unlikely that she might reach her goal...
...competition, tends to look askance on such measures. If his views are followed in reorganizing NRA, price-fixing may go by the boards, along with limitation of production, and suspension of the anti-trust laws. That, at least, is the direction of his inclinations and those of his partner, Madam Secretary Perkins...
This did not silence protest. Tories demanded to know: 1) when Madam Perkins had ever declared a strike "unjustified"; 2) when, politics being what they are, she or the Labor Board ever would do so. The Illinois Manufacturers Association protested thus to Administrator Hopkins...
...Behind him a tax collector was removing a citizen's shirt. In the centre sat Secretary of the Treasury Morgenthau?a clown juggling money with a lap full of gold bricks. General Hugh S. Johnson was jumping irascibly on the roped figure of Industry. Also to be seen were Madam Secretary Perkins, Postmaster General Farley, Uncle Sam on a cross, dying cattle, silent factories, skulls, reaching arms, and a reformer chasing nudes out of the cinema...
...regular office, was at work on more measures, fallible in origin but divine in purpose. NRA make-over took much of his time. General Johnson had gone off to Bethany Beach, Del. for a two-week rest and left the President's ear open to Donald Richberg and Madam Secretary Perkins. So significant did newshawks deem the situation that some reported the General's resignation while others telephoned to Bethany Beach to ask him whether he had had a break with his associates...