Word: blanket
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...from down the island. Investigating these New York Herald Tribune's Correspondent Tom Pettey took a three-day motor trip into the interior, found little evidence. Day after his return revolvers and rifles were cracking in Havana, but the shots were fired in the air. By a single blanket decree the Government of small Provisional President Carlos Manuel de Cespedes declared the Machado administration and all its acts since May 1929 unconstitutional, wiped out the constitutional reforms of 1928 by which Boss Machado was able to pack Congress and the judiciary with his own henchmen, announced new general elections...
...knows of no union of household help in the U. S. No effort to cover servants has been made by the NRA. Individual employers are expected to act in patriotic spirit, like Mrs. William Kissam Vanderbilt who last week signed the President's blanket code with sole reference to her domestic staff...
...butter (1½). Independent farmers, complaining that they received an average of only 2? per quart and irked by the Milk Board's refusal to allow them a better price, last week canceled their deliveries, went on strike. They demanded the abolition of the classified price system, a blanket rate of 45% of the retail price or approximately 5? a quart. The strikers dumped their milk into troughs and ditches, set up pickets to prevent non-strikers from making deliveries. Boonville, 27 mi. north of Utica, became the focal point of disorder which finally required the armed services...
Meanwhile the A. N. P. A. had incurred the wrath of various publishers by its advice to them fortnight ago to refrain from adopting the President's blanket code. The A. N. P. A.'s reason: newspaper publishing "is not an industry but an enterprise of such peculiar importance as to be especially provided for in the Constitution of the U. S. . . . whose independence must be jealously guarded from any interference which can lead to or approximate censorship...
...five-day week for nearly a year, also signed (but not its big brother Chicago Tribune). Said the News in an editorial: "We do not think that the free press argument is a very noble excuse for paying your office boys $13.50 a week instead of the blanket code's $15." Likewise the Milwaukee Journal signed, hired 57 additional employes, increased its yearly payroll by $100,000, roundly flayed the A. N. P. A. for its "plea for special privilege." A cursory survey by Editor & Publisher tradepaper found about 50 signers, estimated hundreds more...