Word: coding
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Eastern and Midwestern lines have so far failed to follow suit because passenger business is their chief source of revenue. Stung by the railroad's bid for passenger service, the Association of Motor Bus Operators appealed to President Roosevelt. Under threat of upsetting their NRA code cart the association demanded that the roads be prevented "from operating at ruinous rates designed to cripple or destroy highway transportation...
About the only distiller who found more good than bad in the code last week was Seton Porter. Freezing the total U. S. distilling capacity at the present figure would assure National Distillers of its dominant position...
...fact that Prohibition was ridden out of the Constitution on the principle of returning liquor to the states. Yet here was a Democratic Administration doing its utmost to retain complete control in Washington. Observers saw unmistakable signs of Brain Trusting, with distillers given the choice of accepting an arbitrary code or facing the threat of a government sales corporation. No theory of social expediency was advanced in support of Federal liquor control, and observers concluded that it was merely another manifestation of the Brain Trust's passion for centralization. Die-hard Drys were more pleased than they had been...
...rebirth of the old. Clearing the two is more than Prohibition. The War and post-War period so rusted the old machinery that even the base castings had to be scrapped. Liquormen know they will be exposed to fierce public criticism. What got under their skins at the code hearings last week was Washington's bland assumption that they were totally incapable of selfdiscipline. They were convinced that, if given a chance, they could push whiskey into a respectable place high in big business circles. Seton Porter and his associates were keenly aware of their social responsibilities...
This New York Herald Tribune advertisement, obviously referring to the crash of a passenger plane in Indiana, last week afforded a rare treat to regular readers of Public Notices in U. S. newsheets. "Personal" columns in London papers are usually full of interesting and mysterious appeals, appointments and code messages. In the U. S. they are taken up almost exclusively by statements from husbands who will no longer be responsible for their wives' debts, eccentric job-hunters, Mexican divorce lawyers and, in Manhattan, the dismal efforts of one Hiram Mann to get himself elected to Congress on a platform...