Word: coding
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...unanimous vote of both houses of the Illinois State Legislature last week was the Fitzgerald-Keane bill as finally amended after five years of agitation, two years' work by a legislative commission, the State Insurance Department and the Illinois Bar Association. One of the strongest State insurance codes yet enacted, the bill needed only Governor Henry Horner's signature to supersede all previous insurance laws in Illinois. Swart Governor Homer called it "one of the finest pieces of constructive workmanship for the protection of policyholders in the U. S." The code has been so universally praised, in fact...
...sooner had he taken office than he asserted his long-held opinion that Illinois insurance laws were a hodgepodge mostly written in 1869 and the only thing to do with them was to clean them all off the statute books. After two years' work a code stringent enough to suit Director Palmer was drafted by two University of Illinois professors and introduced in the Legislature. The Senate killed it twice, in 1935 and 1936. But the bill which finally went to Governor Horner last week was unchanged in these essential provisions...
...concern for Labor and the masses-small political potatoes in agricultural Nebraska. But they extended the State mortgage moratorium law for two more years, kept in step with the New Deal march toward regulated business. Passed were bills laying down price-fixing "fair trade" rules, creating an NRA-like code for automobile dealers, giving the State Railway Commission jurisdiction over trucking, providing State regulation of itinerant merchants and gasoline transporters. The Unicam chiefly distinguished itself from other State Legislatures in enacting only one freak statute: a section in a bill providing for licensing of undertakers which empowers a governing board...
...House, which passed it last month, for action on minor amendments. Aimed to stabilize the sick coal industry (see below), the bill lacks the labor provisions which caused Supreme Court invalidation of the original Guffey Coal Act, creates a National Bituminous Coal Commission to fix minimum prices, enforce a code of fair practices. ¶ Passed the wheat crop insurance bill which provides an appropriation of $100,000,000 to establish the Federal Crop Insurance Corp. through which wheat farmers, paying premiums in grain or cash, can insure their crops against natural hazards. If this pioneer legislation, which is concerned with...
...United Automobile Workers' de mand for recognition as sole bargaining agent for all Chrysler employes, Richard T. Frankensteen, chief automobile union organizer in Detroit, telephoned a code phrase "My hand is up" to his lieutenants in the factories and within two hours all Chrysler plants in Detroit were shut tight (TIME, March...