Word: coding
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Catholic pamphleteer, author of 5? tracts on subjects like Shall I Be a Nun?, My Friend the Pastor, Fashionable Sin, Christ Lives On, which have sold 3,500,000 copies. The St. John the Baptist of the Legion of Decency movement, Father Lord drew up the morality code which Cinema Tsar Will H. Hays's office adopted in 1930 and which is supposed to ban from Hollywood films such subjects as sexual perversion, nudity, irreverent treatment of the clergy, miscegenation...
...Principal aim of the Guffey Act was to revive the NRA Coal Code. Since that code was not constitutional, Congress had to make certain substantive changes. Instead of telling the NRAdministrator to write whatever code he thought was best for the industry, Congress directed by law that the code should fix wages and hours of miners, should require collective bargaining, should regulate coal prices. To compel the industry to obey the code by penalizing disobedience, a 15% tax on coal production was imposed. However, any producer who operated under the code was to get back...
...Cravath, de Gersdorff, Swaine & Wood, who argued for the Schechter Brothers. This time he argued for James Walter Carter of Carter Coal Co. with mines in the Virginias. Another weapon was Charles Irvin Dawson, who before he resigned as a Federal judge in Kentucky had declared the NRA coal code unconstitutional. Last week his clients were 19 Kentucky coal companies whose case was joined with that of Coalman Carter. Other weapons were arguments used in overthrowing NRA, that prices, wages, hours, etc.''were not subject to Federal tinkering under the power of Congress "to regulate commerce . . . among...
Many of these restrictions were embodied in the Dress Code under NRA, and department stores were content to abide by them until last year when the Guild began to operate in the field of low-priced dresses. For some time conscientious retailers had been returning dresses to manufacturers in the $10.75 category, alleging copies in violation of Guild rules. A number of manufacturers of these dresses, hitherto generally committed to copying higher priced dresses for a good proportion of their styles, decided that it was time to originate. They accordingly began to register their dresses with the Guild and were...
Yamano has and deserves little affection in his own family. His son, Shigeo, is a university student, sensitive to the newest thinking of the West, out of sympathy with his father's commercialism, his reactionary social code. Some of Shigeo's friends are arrested on suspicion of Communism. Shigeo, fearing that he may be implicated with them, is reassured by his old friend Major Honjo, a kind-hearted Christian convert who carries on a one - man rescue mission among the Yoshiwara women. At one of Major Honjo's Sunday Bible readings Shigeo meets and falls in love...