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General, and by many others, as being a total throwing out of the NRA and the NRA technique by the Supreme Court. Wyzanski was on the ocean on his way back from Europe when the Schechter case came down. He'd been over looking into something to do with our new affiliation with the International Labor Organization, and had been to Geneva at my request. He was on the ocean when they got by radio the gist of the Schechter decision. At any rate, he either got the news before he went aboard in England, or while he was aboard. He cabled that he was handicapped by not having the full text of the court decision, but, as he read what was available to him, he did not believe that this decision was a total wiping-out of the NRA. It could be salvaged. I should hold on. The dispatch that he had read indicated that the Attorney General had said that this was the end of the NRA, the end of all labor legislation, a total loss. The cable said something like, “Do not agree with Cummings. Believe something can be salvaged. Hold on.”

So I tried to hold on. But the Attorney General was too much for me. He had convinced the President, although I rushed over with Charlie's cablegram, that it was all off. I later realized that the President had gotten so disturbed about the abuses that were going on





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