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...Villain No. 1 was Samuel Clay Williams, chairman of the new National Industrial Relations Board. Delegate I. M. Ornburn of the Cigar Makers International Union charged that when he was chairman of R. J. Reynolds Tobacco Co., as well as head of the cigaret code authority. Mr. Williams had used his NRA prestige to delay the code's enactment, to lower the code wage level and to frame the code so that it "deprived the President of the United States of the mandatory power contained in other codes." On this score a resolution was presented asking the President to "reconsider...
...Villain No. 2 was Attorney General Cummings, who, according to .the bellicose Wisconsin Federation, had given organized Labor "the shabbiest treatment accorded to any set of people in recent years." Mr. Cummings was flayed for failing to prosecute NRA violators. "Only a single injunction suit has been brought by Mr. Cummings." said Judge Padway, "involving the Weirton case, and this one has been so badly bungled that it should never have been started...
...Villain No. 3, singled out by President Green himself, was that famed friend of Labor, Director Donald Randall Richberg of NRA's new Industrial Emergency Committee. Mr. Green was angry with Mr. Richberg because Mr. Richberg had just announced in Washington that employers would be allowed to bargain collectively with individuals and minority groups among their workers...
...cause an attempt to be made on his life. With only eight hours remaining before the time set for the execution of Gray, Chan sets a clever trap and the foxy villian falls right into it. It you decide in the beginning who looks least like the dastardly villain you will have solved the case and will not have to resolved the case and will not have to remain any longer...
...lending to business. Secretary of the Treasury Morgenthau sent a platoon of professors into the Chicago Federal Reserve district to find out who was holding up credit expansion. But not until last week did it occur to anyone in Washington to look for the Administration's pet banking villain right inside the Treasury. At a Washington conference of national bank examiners President Francis Marion Law of the American Bankers Association politely suggested that perhaps the periodic examinations were so strict that bankers feared to do anything except sit on the vault...