Word: richberg
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...appointed Donald Richberg chief horse wrangler. Except for direct requests for appropriations, which will clear as usual through the Bureau of the Budget,* all other Administration measures must hereafter clear through the Industrial Emergency Committee or the National Emergency Council. This meant that only Mr. Richberg, head of both bodies, could stamp a bill as an official Administration measure. The purpose of this new arrangement was to avoid such situations as occurred last year when different Cabinet members sent conflicting bills to Congress, all as Administration measures. Now when the Congressional colt begins to buck, there will be no chorus...
Lawyer Donald Randall Richberg, like a new star in the Washington heavens, reached his zenith directly over the White House, only to start to fade...
When NRA needed a general counsel, Administrator Hugh Johnson thought of his old friend Donald Randall Richberg in Chicago. Temperamentally the two were poles apart but Lawyer Richberg's professional brilliance and political liberalism were the stuff General Johnson wanted. As an inducement Friend Johnson gave Friend Richberg his own top NRA salary, $14,000, took for himself the counsel's smaller pay ($6,800). Thus was Counsel Richberg grandly launched upon the New Deal...
...year Messrs. Johnson & Richberg worked shoulder-to-shoulder. Then began the long, loud ruction over NRA reorganization. As old friends will, the two men fell out violently. Counsel Richberg worked in closer and closer to the White House while General Johnson charged his staff with "disloyalty." Finally, Johnson angrily resigned and Richberg was upped to the nominal rank of "Assistant President" (TIME...
...closeted himself in Manhattan to write his memoirs for which, it was said, he would receive the highest word-rate ever paid a onetime public official. They were scheduled to appear first as a series of articles in the Saturday Evening Post, later in book form. Friends of Friend Richberg saw the manuscript, rushed to him with alarming tales of what Friend Johnson had written about him. By last week Lawyer Richberg was so wrought up that he released to the Press a letter he had written to Satevepost Editor George Horace Lorimer...