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...sort of super-press bureau, the New Deal has its so-called National Emergency Council, headed by aggressive Lowell Mellett, ex-editor of the Washington News. NEC does some ticklish inside jobs: e.g., before Supreme Court Justice Hugo Black accepted a medal from the Southern Conference for Human Welfare last November, he phoned Low Mellett to ascertain if public reaction would be favorable. This week Congressman Bruce Barton, Manhattan adman who knows a pressagent when he sees one, introduced a bill to abolish the whole NEC, charging "Its distinguished membership is only a front for a band of 290 pressagents...
...economic handicap and shortcomings. He wanted the 23 Southern gentlemen to examine and discuss this, restate it if they liked until it represented "the South's own best thought." Then he would present it to the Congress. To guide the Southern gentlemen's deliberations he detailed Lowell Mellett, director of his National Emergency Council...
...condition as to markets, freight rates, capital, absentee ownership, farm earnings, health, education, soil abuse, fertilizer, power, etc., etc. The gentlemen solemnly "agreed" to it all, adding Wages & Hours as a point of their own to be considered. Then they left Washington apparently leaving it up to Director Mellett to frame their "report to the President...
...Lowell Mellett, 54, is a coiner nowadays in the Administration's inner circle. Brother of the late crusading Editor Don Mellett of the Canton, Ohio News, he, too, is a newspaperman of wide experience. This year Franklin Roosevelt signed him on. Fellow newspapermen see him as a candidate being groomed to succeed wily old Charles Michelson, 69. Democratic national pressagent...
...does a good job on the report of the 23 gentlemen from the South, Mr. Mellett will present President Roosevelt with a useful document: a "report" whose homely truths would go down more easily in the South than such blunt criticism of Southern wages and economic standards as Franklin Roosevelt voiced last March at Gainesville; a basis for Administration action which would then look more like an obedient answer to the South's requests than Presidential interference in the South's favorite ways of life...