Word: coding
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...newshawks faced Secretary of Agriculture Wallace in his office with Agricultural Adjustment Administrator George Peek stony-faced at his elbow. The Secretary explained that: 1) the production of corn and hogs must be cut because the export of pork had fallen off; 2) the packers would be handed a code which provided the Government access to their books, power to control their margin of profit; 3) the AAA's milk marketing agreements were unsatisfactory and would have to be revised to control dairy production...
...excited over the possibility that liquor dealers were taking undue advantage of the drinking public was Dr. James M. Doran. For 26 years Dr. Doran has been on the Government payroll, since 1930 as Commissioner of Industrial Alcohol. As chairman of the Distillers Code Authority he said last week: "A mere boom. It is absurd for anyone to predict the price of liquor for the next few days...
...There are certain code mechanisms already adopted that limit machine hours, prevent the substitution of machines for human labor, set minimum prices, and prevent the sale of commodities at less than cost. Through all these methods the N.R.A. is pointing the way for monopolistic price-fixing and limitation of output. The consumer is very likely to be seriously injured, and therefore it is in his behalf that I oppose the N.R.A...
...money $10 a year I can secure better seats than other classmates and other Harvard men who cannot afford the $10 a year. My code of ethics says this is graft. F. W. C. Foster...
...succeed Princeton's late John Grier Hibben as chairman of the Motion Picture Research Council, which attempts to elevate the moral tone of the cinema industry. Last month, his name popped into Variety for the first time when he requested President Roosevelt to include in the cinema code a provision against "block-booking," whereby producers require exhibitors to take pictures by groups instead of singly. Block-booking is the most familiar alibi of exhibitors who show morally deleterious films. Their real reason for disliking block-booking is that it compels them to take pictures on which they cannot make...