Word: nirb
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...completely removed." But tobacco is now selling at 27¢ per lb. and AAA is still levying its processing tax. Thus to the Senate Committee on Agriculture & Forestry last fortnight complained S. Clay Williams, board vice chairman of R. J. Reynolds Tobacco Co. (Camels), onetime chairman of NIRB...
...Acting Administrator, James L. O'Neill, vice president of Manhattan's Guaranty Trust Co., for the last six months a member of the NRA staff. ¶ A "Division of Review" (to gather statistics) was put in charge of Leon C. Marshall, member of the late NIRB. ¶ A "Division of Business Cooperation" (voluntary codes) was headed by Prentiss I. Coonley, ex-pipe-fitting manufacturer, recently assistant to Donald Richberg. ¶ As assistant NRAdministrator, George L. Berry of the A. F. of L. and member of the late NIRB was appointed. ¶ Created to give advice was a council...
...pale. The Chief Justice began to read. Only a few sentences had left his mouth when a newshawk scribbled on a piece of paper: ''Can there be a new Recovery Law?", passed it to Donald Richberg. A moment later it came back, bearing the comment of the NIRB Acting Chairman-a huge question mark...
...given something new to chew on. It was a report on NRA's accomplishments by Brookings Institution, an independent Washington foundation which makes economic studies and researches. The authors were Leon C. Marshall (who prepared some of the material before leaving the Institution to become executive secretary of NIRB), Leverett S. Lyon, onetime deputy assistant NRAdministrator, and four other economists including George Terborgh, a member of the Federal Reserve Board's staff. Only excerpts from the report were made public...
...demoralized NRA's personnel, precipitated a nation-wide epidemic of petty code violations and put the Government in the equivocal position of asking for an extension of the NIRA without daring to risk a showdown on the Act's basic validity. To hush critical cries of cowardice, NIRB Chairman Donald Richberg last week stuck his hand into the grab bag of NRA litigation and pulled out another case which he said the Government would quickly carry to the Supreme Court for the test the country seemed to demand. The case: U. S. v. A. L. A. Schechter Poultry...