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...days later in Washington President Roosevelt inducted NRA into its second phase. For its first 15 months of life NRA's executive structure had been monolithic, with Hugh Samuel Johnson as the bottom, top and sides. The structure of NRA's administration was now changed to a pyramid. Broad base was a seven-man board which would carry on the routine duties of code administration. No sooner had these seven members been appointed than statisticians found that four were lawyers, five were in Who's Who, three were economists, two had Phi Beta Kappa keys...
...unnamed was the personnel of the pyramid's central section, the judicial committee which will some day have to fight the Blue Eagle's battles before the Supreme Court...
...President's one budget of unqualifiedly good news came from the smiling faces of Roosevelts, of his son James who had flown to meet him, of his wife Eleanor who had just completed several weeks of incognito motoring through the Pacific States. She had secretly spent five days at Pyramid Lake, Nev. and was able to report that Daughter Anna was well, had successfully got her divorce with a minimum of publicity, that his grandchildren, "Sistie" and "Buzzie", were happily seeing the Chicago Fair with "Popsie" Dall...
...arrest ordering the U. S. Vice Consul in Istanbul, to bring the body of Samuel Insull back to Chicago for trial for using the mails to defraud, violation of the Bankruptcy Act, larceny and embezzlement in connection with the $2,000,000,000 crash of the Insull utilities pyramid...
Eschewing modern or mechanistic design, Architect Iofan drew a Romanesque pyramid of six fluted, concentric cylinders which together form a pedestal for a 260-ft. statue of Nicolai Lenin, with his face turned to his own tomb on the Red Square. Steps 492 ft. wide lead from the street up to a colonnaded arcade opening into the amphitheatres with back-to-back stages. The larger, which will be decorated with a mammoth panorama of the Revolution, seats 20,000; the smaller 6,000. Escalators go up to a library which will hold 500,000 books, a maze of museums, foyers...