Word: coding
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...going to put a code of fair competition on the newspapers? (Smiling) I hope I may be spared that...
...sport. He frequents race tracks, raises gamecocks on Brother Daniel's Catskill farm. Thence last week the Clan O'Connell directed negotiations for its scion's return. Obeying the kidnappers' instructions, the names of three sets of intermediaries, 31 in all, were published in code in Albany and New York newspapers. The intermediaries were cabaret operators, ex-beer truck drivers, saloon waiters, tipsters and other questionable characters-all friends of the democratic O'Connells. Neither the district attorney's office, local or state police, nor the dozen Department of Justice agents sent to Albany...
...radio speech last month General Hugh Samuel Johnson, Industrial Recovery Administrator, gave that measure for the maximum work and minimum wage of unskilled labor in the trade codes then being prepared by U. S. Industry. Last fortnight the cotton textile code was approved with a 40-hour week and a $12 wage. When he was deluged last week with other codes submitted for approval, General Johnson discovered that none of them came up to his standard. Undaunted, he scheduled a mass of "gold fish bowl" hearings for this week and next...
...Labor threatened to fight. Steel prices were to be based on new regional quotations instead of the old "Pittsburgh plus" system. Simultaneously eleven steel companies headed by Youngstown Sheet & Tube, Republic and Carnegie announced a 15% wage increase at once for about 100,000 workers. Soft Coal. This code represented only the unionized one-quarter of the bituminous industry, promised much controversy. Provided was an eight-hour day and an average 36-hour week for the year. Minimum pay: $5 per day for underground workers; $4 per day for outside men. Employes did not have to live in company houses...
...with all these efforts the Recovery program had not picked up the momentum the White House had anticipated. In its first month only one trade code had been approved. Some 50 other codes, mostly of minor industries, had been submitted, none of them yet heard. The big industries, coal, steel, oil, lumber, clothing, etc. were all working on codes but none was yet ready. Allowing time for hearings, squabbles, compromises and Presidential approval, the prospect of putting them in force in less than two months was dwindling...