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...planned for it, must inevitably grow. But seeing it still lagging after nearly two years' time he realized that the advantages given Recovery by its nurse, the Government, were not enough. He must after all rely on its parent, Business, to look after it. Early this winter Donald Richberg and the President's chief advisors were given to understand that Business was to be encouraged and not squelched when it approached the nursery. That understanding is still in force...
...Richberg Flayed. Most venomous denouncer of the New Deal was burly John Llewellyn Lewis, from the bituminous fields of Illinois. He did not denounce the President of the U. S. himself for signing the renewal, but he did savagely attack the President's closest adviser, Donald Richberg, Director of the National Emergency Council and "Assistant President." Miner Lewis began by declaring: "Richberg was not only recreant to his obligations as a public servant, but a traitor to organized labor when he made that recommendation. For Richberg, I express my personal contempt !"† Warming to his work, he later called...
...organized labor singled out Richberg for vituperation. Even William Green with unwonted pugnacity declared: "The sooner Richberg resigns the better. . . . So far as Labor is concerned he will always be under fire...
...Richberg's Rescue. When Hugh Johnson was his whipping boy, Franklin Roosevelt let him fight their public brawls unassisted. But after his right-hand-man had been publicly abused for nearly a week, the President came to Donald Richberg's rescue. This he did last week by making public two letters...
...time a fully developed party may spring, not necessarily a "red" organization, but quite possibly a powerful one, if it can appeal to the mass of Roosevelt supporters by going the President one better. And it is doubtful whether such eminent but capitalistic New Dealers as Messrs. Baruch, Richberg, and their friends will view such a move with delight...