RECOVERY: Half Way Post

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Last week NRA finished the first of its two legal years of life. Proudly the Blue Eagle screamed achievements: "An absolute minimum" of 3,000,000 jobless workers had been returned to industry. Child labor had been abolished. Four hundred and fifty codes covering 95% of U. S. industry had been promulgated. All this had been voluntarily accomplished, boasted NRA, without the President's once having been forced to use his drastic power to license recalcitrants out of business—a power which last week was allowed to lapse at the halfway post. While admitting that...

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