Word: richberg
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...interim head of NRA, to succeed S. Clay Williams, President Roosevelt appointed his man-of-all-work, Donald Richberg. At the same time he patched up a truce with organized Labor, William Green and John L. Lewis emerging from a White House conference all smiles...
When other methods seem to fail, President Roosevelt likes to send his lieutenants into the land to rally the sagging morale of U. S. businessmen with strong language. First it was Secretary of Commerce Roper, then Donald Richberg who tried to soothe the business jitters by loud strumming on silver-lined harps. Last week President Roosevelt selected as his newest goodwill ambassador Securities & Exchange Chairman Joseph Patrick Kennedy, dispatched him to Manhattan where business gloom is currently thickest. There in an address to 1,200 bankers, brokers and business executives at a luncheon of the American Arbitration Association, Mr. Kennedy...
Backing up an earlier pronouncement by Donald Richberg, new NRA chairman, that the NRA would be administered vigorously, the President told correspondents at his semi-weekly press conference that the NRA is not "the Little Orphan Annie of the administration--if is a very live young lady...
...Richberg On Renewal. That the Finance Committee's NRA "investigation" was to be constructive rather than spectacular Chairman Harrison had already announced. First witness was Donald Richberg. As NRA's old general counsel, no one knew better than he through what legal pitfalls the organization had had to scramble in the past year and a half, what Constitutional hazards still lay ahead. Nevertheless, "the act should be extended substantially in its present form for two years," said he, producing the President's renewal request...
Having thus given the appearance of a man determined to stick by his guns, Mr. Richberg proceeded to lay down a 17-point program proposing amendments to limit NRA to "what can be legally accomplished." The Weirton decision had cast grave doubt on the NRA's legal power to regulate intrastate industrial affairs simply by spicing the law with the "commerce clause" of the Constitution. With an eye to avoiding a peck of court trouble, Mr. Richberg therefore announced: "Codification should be limited to those trades and industries actually engaged in interstate commerce...