RECOVERY: Baby Scrubbing

It was almost like old times last week when General Hugh S. Johnson appeared before the Senate Finance Committee to testify on the bill to renew NRA. The huge Senate caucus room was jam-packed to the doors with twittery spectators. The onetime NRAdministrator looked as tired and bleary-eyed as he did in the late summer of 1933: he had just spent three driving days, three sleepless nights preparing a 20,000-word manuscript on NRA's merits and demerits. And when he hunched himself forward in the witness chair, cocked his spectacles on his nose...

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