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...almost like old times last week when General Hugh S. Johnson appeared before the Senate Finance Committee to testify on the bill to renew NRA. The huge Senate caucus room was jam-packed to the doors with twittery spectators. The onetime NRAdministrator looked as tired and bleary-eyed as he did in the late summer of 1933: he had just spent three driving days, three sleepless nights preparing a 20,000-word manuscript on NRA's merits and demerits. And when he hunched himself forward in the witness chair, cocked his spectacles on his nose and began to read...
Please do not renew my subscription which expires this month. Reason: Races in April 1 issue...
...bill extending the life of NRA to June 16, 1937 was hastily introduced in the Senate by Senator Harrison, who explained that it was merely to serve as a basis for discussion, blanks being left for the amount of fines that NRA violators should pay, etc. It would renew Section 7a without change and would not permit restrictions on production except for special exceptions. Chief change in the proposed law, however, was that it offered a mass of new legal verbiage to bring NRA within the scope of the interstate commerce clause of the Constitution and get around the Constitutional...
...sight. When he finally got around to coordinating it into his recovery program, he discovered it was one of the most useful agencies at his command. In 1934 he got Congress to continue it for a third year and last week Mr. Jones was watching the House renew its charter for two years more...
...Manhattan last week, a crowd of 16,000 went to see Venzke, Bonthron and Cunningham renew their rivalry, found that Venzke had learned the trick of sprinting at the finish, that Bonthron had lost it, that Cunningham was as fast as ever. When Cunningham broke the tape he was 2.6 sec. short of his record but he was first by 7 yd. Venzke, who had sprinted into the lead on the next to last lap, was second. Bonthron, in his first start of the season, was third...