Word: coding
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Lowell, who has long been an advocate of government censorship, was invited to serve as one of the three President's representatives on the motion picture NRA code authority, "in order to observe the operations of the engagement of the industry itself to comply with its own rules of censorship of improper pictures and dialogue...
...Steel did not so wish. Instead, the American Iron & Steel Institute asked Administrator Hugh Samuel Johnson to continue its code until May 31, 1934. Further, Steel expressed "its general satisfaction with the operations of the code in its effects on the industry." Coming on the heels of last month's reaction against the NRA, the steel industry's graceful and timely gesture was much appreciated by General Johnson and the White House...
...insignificant little corporation in Brooklyn last week skyrocketed into national prominence when Hercules Gasoline Filling Stations Inc. was made the target for the first Federal indictment charging violation of a permanent NRA code. The owners were accused of working their employes 18 hours per week longer than the petroleum code allowed. with failure to post gasoline prices...
...This will show that the National Recovery Act has teeth in it," snapped U. S. Attorney Howard W. Ameli of Brooklyn. Counsel for the defense retorted: "We did not sign the code, but a number of our competitors who did sign it, proceeded to violate it. ... In order to compete with them and keep our business going we had to work our men the same number of hours that they did. We refuse to be made the goat. This case may bust the whole NRA question wide open...
Last week President Alfred Pritchard Sloan Jr. took the lead in his industry by announcing that prices of General Motors' entire 1934 line would be upped from 10% to 15% because of rising costs of labor and materials under the NRA automobile code. Of equal interest to motorists was his announcement that all GM's new models would feature independent front wheel suspension, which has been used sparingly in Europe for several years. Said Motorman Sloan...