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imposed upon them.”

In putting into operation in my own department the Walsh-Healey Public Contracts Act I put into operation the same set of administrative procedures which I had recommended to NRA and which I had been familiar with under the New York State labor law, which delegates to the administrative body a great degree of regulatory power. I don't want to say that I was an expert on administrative law, but I had been accustomed to what the New York law required under the delegation of authority, and it had seemed to me, as I had seen it operate, that that was good, that that was a wise and proper safeguard to the misuse of legislative authority delegated to one person or to a small board of persons who are not elected by the people. I felt that we had done well to insist on as much of it as we did have in NRA.

At any rate, the President made an effort to keep NRA under control. The device of the Cabinet committee was the best thing he could think of, but it was not completely successful due to the complications involved.

It's hard to believe that the NRA went into operation in the early summer of 1933 and washed out in May '35, Johnson resigning in September '34, because between the date of the inauguration of the NRA in the early summer of '33 and Johnson's resignation a year from the next autumn