Word: coding
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...with Delta Finishing Co. of Philadelphia. The finished product the Department of Justice sells to the War Department at a fixed price. With the job about half done, the Delta concern lately informed the Justice Department that it was now operating under an NRA code, that costs had gone up 35%, that it could not complete its contract without more money from the U.S. The Justice Department was agreeable, provided the War Department paid more. Attorney General Cummings put the issue up to Comptroller McCarl who ruled last week...
With the Presidential special standing in Washington's Union Station one evening last week-puffing, impatient to be off with Mr. Roosevelt to Hyde Park- General Johnson in a few hours put across three big deals: wangled codes out of the lumber, steel and oil industries. Thus was a grave deadlock broken, the first major industries (aside from textiles) brought under the code provision of the Recover...
...best ally was the daily press. The nation's front page was his every time he opened his mouth. His salty speech, his candor, his humor, his drive captivated the half a hundred Washington correspondents who attended his conferences. The General roughly rejected the proposed newspaper code as unsatisfactory (see p. 28) but publishers did not retaliate by playing him down...
Tired of hotel life Mrs. Johnson took a non-paying job on NRA's Consumers Advisory Board, chairmanned by Mrs. Charles Gary Rumsey. A quiet, cheery, unassuming person in simple clothes, the General's wife works in the complaint division sits in on many a code hearing...
...deficit of $3,747,000 for 1932. Two years ago Lew Hahn was boosted to chairman of the board, Paul Quattlander made president. Now Hahn is quietly dropped. Meantime, however, he has become president of National Retail Dry Goods Association, has directed the drafting of the Dry Goods code. Last week having lost his store job, he offered his resignation to the Association. The Association, having relied on him from of old, refused to accept...