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With virtually no bait remaining to induce businessmen to accept codes, and no force to compel them to do so, NRA now exists as a skeleton statistical organization whose chief job is to look up facts & figures to prove how good conditions were under the Blue Eagle, how bad after the Eagle fell to earth...
...Continuation of a codeless, unenforced NRA under a skeleton staff until April 1, 1936-a proposition promptly passed (264-to-121) by the House but threatened with defeat in the Senate by those who wanted NRA's bones more quickly buried...
...Collection by NRA's skeleton of data on the past success of the codes and on the "orgy of wage slashing" that was expected to follow NRA's unmanning by the Supreme Court...
After these White House announcements NIRBoard Chairman Donald Richberg's aides-4,200 of the 100,000 Governent employes in Washington-scurried around looking for new jobs, fearful that they might not be preserved in NRA's skeleton. In the New York Times appeared this significant advertisement...
...Construction and Repair from 1903 to 1910; of heart disease; in Washington. On Admiral Dewey's staff during the Spanish-American War, he supervised raising and repairing Spanish vessels captured in the battle of Manila Bay. As Chief Constructor he evolved the all-big-gun ship, the skeleton mast which became a distinctive feature of U. S. warcraft...