Word: coding
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Thrifty students will find that their dollar will not go as far this year as it did during the last three years, for the NRA has sent Harvard Square prices skyward. Codes governing many necessities are already in operation, but books, a chief student need, are at the same price as last year, inasmuch as the bookseller's code is not yet settled...
...cost for laundry varies little from last spring. Launderers are under a code, but are permitted to work 45 hours a week. An immediate shortening of these hours by Franklin D. Roosevelt '04, President of the United States, is expected. Thus an upward revision of laundry costs is anticipated...
...Last week General Johnson admitted that he had let the "merit" provision on labor go into the automobile code "in an unguarded moment," declared he would bar it from all others...
...Liaison. Dr. Zook would gear the Office of Education to be a powerful liaison service between the schools and the new agencies of the Government. This month the Office's School Life (paid circulation 10,000-largest of any Government organ) describes for teachers the "Children's Code" (child labor ban), tells how school districts may apply for Public Works funds for building. School Life asks: "Can you name the ten new Federal agencies whose long names have shrunk to initial letters? Do you know the purpose of each of these ten weapons
...Congress has given to the President to fight the recovery campaign?" As an aid to teachers in telling their pupils about them it presents "thumbnail sketches" of NRA, AAA, PWA, CCC. FCOT, FERA, TVA, RFC, FFCA, HOLC, with a map of Washington showing their locations. NRA. A code for teachers was submitted to NRA last month by the American Federation of Teachers. It was rejected on the ground that teachers are government employes. Nevertheless Commissioner Zook cautiously announced that the Office of Education is studying the "implications" of a code, with some recommendations to NRA in view. Meanwhile pedagogs were...