General Johnson's ubiquitous assistant, Frances M. ("Robbie") Robinson, had been in Manhattan last week stitching an NRA label on an $800 blue fox scarf to signalize the codification of the fur industry when the story broke that her brother-in-law had a $6,800 NRA job in Washington. Brother-in-law's name was John Wilshear. He had been treasurer of a Brooklyn shoe company. When it shut down several months ago he went to Washington and into "training to take charge of the leather section of NRA." Rent with internal politics,...
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