Jacob Maged (Jack Magid) and the New Deal

If you've ever researched "Jack Magid" after reading John T. Flynn's "The Roosevelt Myth", you were frustrated. I think I have the answer. The tailor jailed under the New Jersey NRA (an FDR designed central-planning boondogle) Tailors' Code was a Polish immigrant named Jacob Maged.

On page 44 of John T. Flynn's book, The Roosevelt Myth, the author incorrectly cited Jack Magid as the tailor who had been arrested, jailed and fined on the 21st of April, 1934 in Jersey City, New Jersey for violating the New Jersey State Recovery Act. Flynn wrote: "A tailor named Jack Magid in New Jersey was arrested, convicted, fined and sent to jail. The crime was that he had pressed a suit of clothes for 35 cents when the Tailors' Code fixed the price at 40 cents." Researcher John Barksdale discovered the jailed tailor who John Flynn had improperly referenced was a Polish immigrant named Jacob Maged. On the 13th of April 1938, the Charleston Gazette published an article about Jacob Maged's April 1934 arrest with a photo of him standing behind a paper NRA "Blue Eagle" that he had taped to a window in his shop.


The Charleston Gazette, April 13, 1938, "Codes For Local Industries Result In Invalidation of NRA by High Court"




The National Industrial Recovery Act (NIRA), officially known as the Act of June 16, 1933 (Ch. 90, 48 Stat. 195, formerly codified at 15 U.S.C. sec. 703), was an American statute which authorized the President of the United States to regulate industry and permit cartels and monopolies in an attempt to stimulate economic recovery, and which established a national public works program.

The Dunkirk Evening Observer on Wednseday, April 25th, 1934 published this article called "NRA Violator Free to Press Suits Again". "Jacob Maged, the New Jersey, New Jersey tailor, who aroused national interest when he was sentenced to jail for pressing a suit for 35 cents instead of the 40 cents set by the state industrial recovery act, is a free man who isn't "sore at anybody" and who thinks "the NRA is a good thing". He is shown putting up a Blue Eagle in the store after his release. Judge Robert V. Kinkead (inset), who freed Maged after he had served three days of a 30-day term, promised he'd be a Maged customer.

He was charged with asking five cents less for pressing suits than the 40 cent minimum of the state code. He agreed to confrom to the code and a judge suspended a fine of $100 and 30 days in jail. Above, on April 23, he hangs up the Blue Eagle in his window.

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[nakedmambo]

@nakedmambo ...It's nothing to do with central banks, chum, it's because America's economy in the 20s and the 2000s floated on the fantasy gains of the worst excesses of the stock market.

Look at the Netherlands, an old country with a central bank, a solid stock market, some interventionist policy and it was hardly dented by the recession. You're an amateur.

[nakedmambo]

@order9066 No you should "thank" America's common solution to recessions and depressions, the war economy. That's what has been driving the U.S. economy since that war ended too. All over Latin America and the Middle-East.

And curiously, Europe with it's central bank 'model' is growing and managing better than the U.S. which is in rapid decline, yet both have a central bank?? Mmm..wonder what's happeinng there? And China, which has a central bank and is outstripping both regions.

[order9066]

@nakedmambo More like "micro-managed" the economy. The Agricultural Adjustment Act was struck down by the Supreme Court. The National Recovery Act was struck down by the Supreme Court. FDR and his "brain-trust" stooges made the Depression worse. When President Wilson gave America the Federal Reserve, America was doomed to follow Europe's ill-fated central bank model. I always enjoy FDR apologists who think WWII brought America out of the Depression. So should we thank Hitler?

[nakedmambo]

@mrjosephyoung "managed an economy" If you think it's all lefty propaganda why talk about a president mismanaging an economy, since you're obviously of the school who thinks a tiny three-man government should sit in a dark room for 364 days of the year to keep them from "interfering"? Did the crooks who ploughed the economy into the ground 'manage' it very well? FDR managed to offer more work for hungry people than any money merchants between the start of the New Deal and the US entry into WW2.

[mrjosephyoung]

Jacob was obviously coerced into his support of the nefarious NRA and given a suspended sentence for his "cooperation." FDR never managed a successful economy and has his stature in history is maintained only by the ignorance of the mainstream press and the lefty academics who idolize him. Writers like John T. Flynn exposed FDR as the fraud that he really was -- Flynn should be mandatory reading by all history students as antidote to the propaganda that they are forced to read.