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...Defense. The New Deal did not pick up the blunt and battered weapons with which it had failed to save NRA. Donald Richberg and Solicitor General Stanley Reed were not heard again in the courtroom nor were their arguments. This time the Government's counsel was John Dickinson, onetime professor of law at the University of Pennsylvania, later Assistant Secretary of Commerce, now Assistant Attorney General. He had worked up new arguments with the aid of his old friend. Professor Edward S. Corwin of Princeton. Their prime point was that if the Government has power to regulate interstate commerce...
...Henry Ford's announcement that he would build 1,000,000 cars was a refreshing breath of optimism. In Washington the Railroad Retirement Act went out as unconstitutional. In Miami Legionaries shouted for immediate cash payment of the Bonus. In Denver and Albany there were hunger marchers. Donald Richberg had just been named co-ordinator-in-general to set the cosmic alphabet in order. From coast to coast the issue was whether Harry Hopkins, playing Santa Claus at the rate of $140,000,000 a month, was corrupting the electorate. On all sides were squabbles, hopes, issues. And then...
Last week from his Hyde Park study President Roosevelt looked out on a strangely different U. S. scene. Gone was the NRA. Gone was Donald Richberg. No angry bankers and no housing boom disturbed the tranquillity of the country. Henry Ford had built a million cars in the first ten months of 1935. Not one but two million shares a day were changing hands on the New York Stock Exchange and stocks after a seven-month climb were at their highest levels since the New Deal took office. Unemployment was still high, relief plans still in a muddle, but hunger...
Growing, perhaps, a little tired of successive goodbys to Hugh Johnson, S. Clay Williams and Donald Richberg, the President last week bid farewell to James L. O'Neill, his fourth NRA head, who went back to his job as active vice president of Manhattan's Guaranty Trust Co. leaving unimportant NRA temporarily without a chief...
...Gracefully ending a memorable chapter of New Deal history, the President had Donald Richberg to luncheon, bade him Godspeed back to private life...