Word: richberg
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Thus spake Roosevelt's right-hand man, Donald Richberg, a few days ago. Yet neither doubting Thomases, Tories, old guardists, nor even the few quite respectable anti-now dealers have drawn sufficient nectar from this dictum to plunge into the requested attitude of confidence...
...group know that Mr. Richberg is not to follow Raymond Moley, Lewis Douglas, General Johnson, and Rexford Tugwell into that attractive, but non-political, circle of his-beens? He does seem quite impressed with being assistant-president, so impressed even that he may soon find himself in a satin-lined ash can. Other trial balloons have soared gracefully over the capital before but treacherous currents usually carry them to Utopia, and strange as it may seem, their maker at the time. So we have given up gazing at these colored balls and their tinsel instigators, and wait for the word...
Director Donald Randall Richberg of the National Emergency Council, who has found Hugh Samuel Johnson's Saturday Evening Post serial The Blue Eagle from Egg to Earth much less offensive than he expected (TIME, Dec. 31, et seq.), told a Miami audience: "I question your interest even in the harrowing tale of the transition of the Blue Eagle from egg to egomania...
...employment agreement" (i. e. preliminary code) that suited them. He got a code that specified not a minimum but an average wage, and he got it without fireworks and without making enemies except in the labor camp. In fact he made decided friends of Hugh Johnson, Donald Richberg and Daniel Roper. He also got along very well with Franklin Roosevelt-over the package of Camels on the President's desk...
...peace instead of contention in the public prints. For Clay Williams has not the temperament to promote stormy scenes and he never has anything of importance to say to the Press. What he has to say he says at the White House himself or sends word by Donald Richberg. He is valued also as a midway man on NRA theory. The index of cigaret consumption fluctuates with every economic curve-and the industry meets fluctuations by flexing not by fixing prices. S. Clay Williams is accordingly no price- fixer. Recently NRA surveyed 23 industries and came to the conclusion that...