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Call for Mr. Throttlebottom!
Rorty, James | January 10, 1934 issue

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Floating around in the otherwise capitalist alphabet soup of the New Deal program are a couple of decorative ingredients which threaten to become functional and nutritious. They are the Consumers' Advisory Board of the National Recovery Administration and the Consumers' Counsel of the AAA. Some of the best and most nearly radical brains in Washington are concentrated about these two advisory boards. Maybe "they can't win," as the custodians of lawful, profit-motivated business would put it. But already they have done enough to give the leaders of the patent-medicine, drug, cosmetic, food and advertising industries the most acute attack of jitters that this writer has ever had the pleasure of witnessing.

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NEW Deal, 1933-1939; ADVISORY boards; CONSUMERS; COSMETICS; MEDICINE; DRUGS
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