Word: coding
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Republicans look alike to me." At the last minute, this gathering was postponed. Idaho's ursine Borah, on the lookout for a saddle horse to replace crippled "Governor" and superannuated "Idaho," notified Oil Administrator Ickes that big petroleum producers were squeezing little ones, that while the oil code increased costs to producers $125,000,000 a year, $486,000,000 in price increases were being passed on to consumers. With North Dakota's Nye he went to the White House with another complaint. He felt that NRA was injuring the small businessman. The President offered both Senators seats...
Already harried by the complexities of state regulations, no two sets of which are alike, distillers turned to Washington and the administrator of their code authority, Dr. James M. Doran, longtime Commissioner of Industrial Alcohol. Dr. Doran, since 1927 the Government's contact man with the liquor business, spoke out for the distillers...
Three months ago, as chairman of the Motion Picture Research Council, President Emeritus Abbott Lawrence Lowell of Harvard signed a petition to President Roosevelt asking that the cinema code include restrictions on block booking. President Roosevelt signed the code without such restrictions and appointed Dr. Lowell. Eddie Cantor and Marie Dressier as Government representatives to the Code Authority. Last week Dr. Lowell refused the appointment. His reasons, explained in letters to General Johnson, showed a remarkably sound knowledge of the cinema industry...
...Lowell's first letter complained that the code, instead of checking block booking, gave it "a certain legal sanction." When General Johnson reminded him that the code does permit exhibitors to cancel up to 10% of the blocks of films which they are forced to buy from major producers if they want any films at all, Dr. Lowell wrote back...
...product ... is futile because it is perfectly easy for the producers to put in 10% of films which the exhibitors are certain to reject before reaching the objectionable ones. ... I am very much struck by your explanation of why the representatives of the Government on the Code Authority are not given a vote. You say 'What is the use of a vote against a certain majority?' This assumes that a member of the Code Authority whose only interest in the matter is clean films will find himself necessarily in opposition to the producers. I fear this is only...