Word: coding
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...phrasemaker. He had to be handy with the tools of propaganda. He had to have the ruthless drive of a Cromwell and the tact of a Disraeli In 2,000 A D. there will still be alive hundreds & hundreds of octogenarians to whom the words "chiselers," "codes " crackdown" and "Blue Eagle" will have an historic association. And to them the Man of the Year of 1933 will be National Recovery Administrator Hugh Samuel Johnson. The year was more than one third gone before Man of the Year Johnson burst like a flaming meteorite on the country...
...stubborn industrialists. Just before midnight, when the President is leaving for Hyde Park, General Johnson dashes for the White House. "Three major codes signed!" he cries. "That's a day's work!' Estimated jobs created: lumber, 115,000; steel, 50,000; oil, 240,800. Aug. 27-The automobile business becomes the fifth major industry to be codified. "My one regret," says General Johnson, "is that Henry Ford did not sign." Aug. 31-Dudley Gates of Chicago, Johnson's right hand man for industry, resigns. Mr. Gates believed in vertical unions, rather than the oldstyle horizontal unions...
...Blue Eagles NRA has issued, only 48 have been revoked. It has fought eight code violators in the courts, has won seven cases. Pending are twelve more. To date 168 codes have been approved. Seventy-five more will be approved by New Year. Man of the Year Johnson believes that he has put 4,000,000 people to work, has upped the national payroll $2,500,000,000 in the past half-year. Last week the President extended his blanket re-employment agreements to May i, but these have lost their importance since 70% of the nation's workers...
...factory hand gets hardly more. But CWA puts jobless men to work at 50? an hour-$3 for a six-hour day of not too arduous labor. Last week in Toledo four metal manufacturers complained that workers whom they were paying between 35? and 40? under an NRA code were deserting to take better-paying CWA jobs. While relief officials were investigating, Georgia's Governor Talmadge charged that CWA was also hiring help away from the farm. He complained that Federal authorities would not listen to his protests. CWAdministrator Hopkins retorted: "All that guy is after is headlines...
Friends of Dr. Lindsay Rogers, who has been struggling with the code for five months, well knew that the deputy NRAdministrator hoped that Guild delegates would not create further friction with publishers by making Heywood Broun, pinko Scripps-Howard columnist, their first president. But after a National Press Club luncheon at which General Johnson assured them that the Government would protect them from discharge for joining the Guild, the delegates promptly elected Broun. Other officers: Lloyd White (Cleveland Press), Andrew McClean Parker (Philadelphia Record), Edward D. Burks (Tulsa World), R. S. Gilfillan (Minneapolis Tribune), A. Judson Evans (Richmond Times-Dispatch...