Word: nec
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Last week, inaugurating a recorded series of NEC get-acquainted interviews with Cabinet members on the workings of their departments, the voice of the President spoke over 150 local U. S. radio stations, and it left no doubt as to what the President's favorite publicity medium is. From one of the sturdiest planks in George Washington's parting platform ("In proportion as the structure of a government gives force to public opinion, it is essential that public opinion be enlightened") the President dived overboard with his biggest splash for radio. Said...
Depression I pulled him into public service (State Relief, NRA, NEC, Housing). A Republican by family precept, he had long been a friend of Franklin Roosevelt's Uncle Frederic Delano, in the early New Deal years came to know and admire the President. So he was not astounded when onetime NEC Director Frank Walker met him in the lobby of Washington's Hotel Mayflower shortly after the 1936 elections, suggested he visit the White House next day. He was sworn in as Assistant Secretary...
...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...
Some such fascination as draws Spaniards to bull fights draws a large, weekly audience to NEC's five-month-old questionnaire program, Information Please. A number of powerful minds are let into the ring, are baited, stung, encouraged, wounded, sometimes left unscathed by a series of pointed questions. Matador of this intellectual bull session is sharp-witted Clifton Fadiman, book reviewer for The New Yorker. Permanent bulls have been Franklin Pierce ("F. P. A.") Adams and the New York Times'?, amazingly broadly informed Sportswriter John Kieran. Paul de Kruif, Stuart Chase, Marc Connelly, John Gunther, Alice Duer Miller...
Relief was the problem discussed with Executive Director Donald Richberg of NEC, Under Secretary of Agriculture Rexford Guy Tugwell and FERAdministrator Harry Hopkins...