Word: coding
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...social, as well as academic, one should browse in the books of Professor Babbitt. Almost to a phrase the attacks on utilitarianism, immediacy, cheapness, indolence, and shying from moral and mental effort, emanate, seemingly, from the twilight of Sever 11. In American education, to quote from the humanistic code, there is an "elementary confusion of standards," and the blame lies on the self-styled and meddling educational 'experts.'" In the interests of palatability American children are being fed knowledge by countless "plans," by our Teachers' Colleges, and are doing no learning for themselves...
...National Recovery Act-by which Government and business were to enter a "partnership" in fixing minimum wages, maximum hours of labor, volume of output and prices-had passed the House, headed for the Senate. Forehanded, Mr. Sloan slapped down on the President's desk a cotton textile code. President Roosevelt's criticism of the cotton business, which he singled out in his radio address last month as an industry in which regulation might be desirable, is chiefly aimed at its labor policy. The Cotton Textile Association was now agreed on a 40-hour week. To Mr. Sloan...
While trade associations were beginning to find out just how drastically the White House expected to see their industries reformed, drug men met in Manhattan to form a Drug Institute of America. They, too, were preparing a code. Not labor and wages, but prices and competition are the sore spots of the drug business...
...legislation, for all the powers it gave the President to put Government and Business into "partnership," contained few surprises. As a price for having the Anti-Trust laws suspended, each industry was to draft and subscribe to a fair trade code to be approved by the President. Each such code was to ration production so that some plants would not work 24 hours per day while others stood idle, to reduce working hours so that more employees could find jobs, to set up a minimum wage so that sweatshop operators could not steal the market, to give labor a free...
Callers on Pilot Francis Monroe Hawks in the Manhattan offices of Texas Co. last week were announced in a curious manner. The reception clerk would turn to a telegraph key, buzz the name and business of the caller in wireless code. From his inner office Commander Hawks would buzz a reply. Reason: preparatory to a 25,000-mi. flight over the Pan American Airways network he is brushing up on his radio...