Word: coding
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...William H Davis presided at the hearing. The dry-cleaners were read a decision just handed down in a New Jersey State court, permitting the NRA to enjoin a cleaner from cutting prices, on the grounds that "no citizen has any right in this emergency" to defy his industrial code. Chief plaint heard by the Compliance Director was that cash-&-carry cleaners were required to charge their customers the same rates as call-&-deliver cleaners. In chorus the cash-&-carriers squealed that they were being ruined...
...prepared to review the code's price schedule, but, meantime, violators would be turned over to the Federal Trade Commission unless they promised to go and sin no more against Recovery. On the strength of this combined promise and threat, 50 of the littlest cleaners knuckled under, among them the St. Petersburg, Fla. "pressing-club" proprietor whom Federal Judge Akerman, on a technicality, had exculpated from the charge of "chiseling" the NRA fortnight before (TIME, Dec. 11). Those big enough to have lawyers for the most part did not knuckle under. Hysterically cried one Irving Brukstone, representing Chicago...
...from feeling grouchy toward NRA last week, many a U. S. business found new happiness in code life. Thus, the silk hosierymen notified Washington that their enforced 40-hr. week was piling up an unsold surplus. Right back came an order which, recognizing the industry's seasonal slump, stipulated that silk stockings were to be made throughout the nation only on Wednesdays, Thursdays and Fridays. The automotive industry, whose code expires Dec. 31, requested that it be extended to Sept. 1, 1934. Well pleased with NRA was the Synagogue Council of America, which voted the Administration thanks...
...Samuel Goldwyn). When Eddie Cantor was a singing waiter in a Coney Island beer parlor, his comedy routine consisted of a song or two and a few jokes, original or stolen. Now that he is the highest-paid funnyman in the U. S. and a member of the Cinema Code Authority with President Emeritus Lowell of Harvard, his performances require such elaborate preparations that he can appear in only one a year. William Anthony McGuire, George S. Kaufman, Robert Sherwood, George Oppenheimer, Arthur Sheekman, Nat Perrin and Cantor himself collaborated on story or dialog for Roman Scandals. Several thousand showgirls...
Almost as excited as their employers over an NRA code, newspaper workers have been busy forming local guilds since last August. Last week delegates from 30 guilds, proxies from 43 more, met in Washington to draw up a constitution and elect officers for the American Newspaper Guild...