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Blond, barrel-chested Hermann Wilhelm Goring, Premier of Prussia, Prussian Minister of the Interior, President of the Reichstag, Reich Minister of Aviation, has a multitude of gaudy self-designed uniforms differing from those of other Nazis. Last week, to set off the doeskin military cloak that has attracted much attention of late, he acquired a new pair of trousers, blazing with the broad scarlet stripes of an honorary General of Infantry...
...this provision into their approved code: ''Employers in the industry may exercise their right to select, retain or advance employes on the basis of individual merit, without regard to their membership or nonmembership in any organization." Wrathfully organized labor pointed out that "merit" would be made a cloak behind which manufacturers would discharge union workers. NRA's Labor Advisory Board reluctantly accepted the stipulation, warned that it was no precedent. But other non-union code makers in Washington quickly took their cue from the automobile industry, began writing "merit systems" into their labor agreements...
...Wilhelm Göring. The points of his brownshirt collar (and of his alone) are scarlet. As German Air Minister he affects a topcoat with unique and striking white lapels. He delights in the clucks and murmurs of the masses when he appears in a rakish wild-leder (doeskin) cloak, fastened at the neck with a single clasp. Last week he set the fashion in which Germans condemned to Death will be executed...
...Bing") Bingay, editorial director of the Detroit Free Press. Editor Bingay, bald and fat, carefully segregated the majority of U. S. newspapers as law-abiding institutions. But the yellows and the "equally sinister group that is in the twilight zone, the near yellows, which parade under a cloak of respectability," said he, "created the fiction of the gangster and then through that fiction made him into a reality." Excerpts from his speech: ". . . [Yellow] newspapers create for headline purposes catchy, attention-arresting names for the bands of marauders. In my home city ... it is the 'Purple Gang.' . . Most...
...weekly shifts of 40 hours each. Child labor was banned. Oil. Price and production control still saw big companies and independent producers battling as fiercely as ever within this industry. They did, however, agree on a 40-hour week, at $18.80 in the North, $16 in the South. Cloak & Suit. Women's garment workers were given a 40-hour week with $14 as the minimum wage. Overtime was prohibited. To rid the industry of sweatshops all goods manufactured under the code were to be labeled NIRA.* Men's Clothes. A 40-hour week at $14 in the North...