Word: richberg
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Deal' Administration has stopped the dangerous trend towards Fascism and Nazism that existed before it came into power," said Donald R. Richberg, General Counsel of the NRA, Mr. Richberg, in a speech to be given tomorrow in room 100 of the Baker Library at the Business School, will go farther into this point and will present many statistics relating to the work of the NRA. "The people of this nation were headed straight for either Fascism or Nazism until the present administration came into power," continued Mr. Richberg. "And if the President should fail to handle the situation befor...
...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...
...National Recovery Administration has anything to do with the Bible, the President of the U.S. has not mentioned it, beyond referring to "money-changers in the Temple" in his inaugural address. But last month in a radio address to the nation, Donald Randall Richberg, general counsel of the NRA said: "This is . . . not a war of man against man. It is rather a war of ideas-the co-operative idea against the idea of unrestrictive competition-the idea of national welfare against the idea of unrestrictive self-seeking-the New Testament against the Old Testament -the Sermon on the Mount...
...Christians took no particular notice, but certain Jews became excited. The American Jewish Congress and the American Jewish Committee remonstrated directly. Counsel Richberg, no Jew, was deeply embarrassed. Last week he issued an elaborate apology. "I have been surprised and shocked," he said. ''The fact is that I was not thinking in terms of religion but in terms of political economy. I was not considering different faiths, but a changing social order- one period of history and another. I had not the slightest intention of raising a theological issue-. ... I readily concede that the phrasing of my thought...
...Congress and the Committee publicized Counsel Richberg's apology with an air of satisfaction. The militant American Hebrew & Jewish Tribune editorialized: "Somewhat feeble...