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Donald Richberg, eaglophile counsel of the NRA, promptly pooh-poohed this blunt setback: "The judge's remarks on the alleged unconstitutionality of the Recovery Act itself obviously do not carry any legal weight, since they were expressive of the jurist's personal view and did not constitute a ruling on a point...
...Last fortnight famed Pilot Clarence Duncan Chamberlin (New York-Germany), aviation chairman of the Society of Automotive Engineers., pooh-poohed this project as possible but ''very impractical." His argument: For less money, planes can be built (and lines subsidized) to cross the ocean without artificial stations...
...company unions. But Leader Lewis had a long head start on them, with the result that he is now undisputed master of more than half a million working men. When NRA first began to negotiate a coal code, most operators who had thrown off the union yoke in 1927 pooh-poohed the idea that U. M. W. had their labor already sewed up, flatly refused to dicker with Leader Lewis. A serious bituminous strike in Pennsylvania helped to change their minds. By the time the coal code reached the stage of public hearings in August, Miner Lewis dominated the scene...
...Assistant Secretary of the Interior; Alexander Wilbourne Weddell of Virginia, former career diplomat, to be Ambassador to Argentina. ¶ Few reports have excited Washington so much as last week's to the effect that President Roosevelt might attend the London Economic Conference next month. The White House secretariat pooh-poohed the story, and the President discouraged it by reciting his summer plans to the Press: He would go to the graduation of his son John at Groton School in early June, receive an honorary degree at Rutgers later. Aboard the cruiser Indianapolis he would steam up the coast from...
...Bruno Seltzski's house on the grounds he had not paid his taxes. When he refused to open his safe, they had closed it with official seals. When they returned, they found that Seltzski had blandly broken the seals, emptied his safe. Though he was arrested, Army men pooh-poohed the talk, reluctant to embarrass one another, friendly Czechoslovakia and potent Skoda...