Word: coding
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...opening the NRA "Buy Now" campaign, while Mrs. Roosevelt and daughter started a little recovery campaign of their own by promising to accept from a Manhattan manufacturer the first two ladies' coats with NRA tags sewn in them, to prove they were stitched under the coat & suit code...
Marshaling his parade toward Recovery, by last week President Roosevelt had swung Industry into line with a series of NRA codes. The nation's storekeepers were being regimented under a Retail Code. He was about to turn his attention to the nation's consumers, whose purchasing power was to be set in motion with a "Buy Now" campaign. Special posters, silhouets of the Capitol in blue, were rolling from the presses. Individual manufacturers were ready to launch private advertising campaigns. General Hugh Johnson declared that the "flat wallet era" was about...
...Deuteromic Code," Professor R. H. Pfeiffer, Andover...
...this has been a recognized plank of Fascist policy since that party came to the fore, and its adoption by the N.R.A. will be an unpleasant piece of plagiarism. For these boards cannot possibly discover violations of code agreements unless apprised of them by the labor of each industry: the job of policing would be entirely too vast, and the violations could be too easily veiled. It is asking a great deal of Labor, which contrary to silly reports of selfishness, has not been able, in the larger industries, to raise its individual weekly wages above the regular depression...
...week against 30?. Pressed for details on former wages, Vice President Winthrop Neilson stated that Alcoa was paying as low as 20? an hour or $8 a week until it voluntarily jumped to 22? "in an attempt to cooperate in re-employment." When Alcoa signed NRA's blanket code, wages were boosted to 30? an hour. "We accepted 30? an hour for what we hoped would be a very brief period in order to get the Blue Eagle," explained Mr. Neilson. Asked about Alcoa-owned Bauxite, Ark., Mr. Neilson described it as a "model mining town" with "excellent sanitary...