Word: coding
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Guffey Coal Bill v/hich enacted into Federal law most of the old Bituminous Coal Code...
According to the ancient code duello, the seconds in an affair of honor fight beside their principals. According to the modern version of the code, seconds must try to effect a reconciliation satisfying to the honor of all parties. In the political duel which began month ago before the Senate Committee on Territories & Insular Affairs over the honor of the Virgin Islands, Secretary of the Interior Harold Ickes and Maryland's Senator Millard Tydings followed the ancient code. They joined the combat in support of their respective principals, Virgin Islands Governor Paul M. Pearson, accused of maladministration, and Virgin...
...diplomacy, tells many an anecdote of highly-placed Germans who admitted their humiliation at the invasion of Belgium, his chapters on the War years are strangely naive and repetitious. Determined to establish Germany's guilt, he seems to lose sight of his king in his search for a code of ethics in modern warfare. But in a brilliant chapter on the King and his reign, Biographer d'Ydewalle characterizes the daily routine of royalty in terms that are enlightening. Plagued by intriguing politicians, the highest compliment Albert could pay his minister was his sardonic "You, at any rate...
...intention to have his labor bills passed no matter how "reasonable"' might be the doubt of their Constitutionality. There is such doubt about the Labor Disputes Bill. There is a lot more doubt about the Guffey Coal Bill which, in fact, amounts to NRA's Soft Coal Code being re-enacted into law although the Supreme Court ruled that, and all other codes, unconstitutional. Attorney General Cummings refused to furnish the Ways & Means Committee with a brief for its Constitutionality and, according to Washington talk, flatly told the President that the measure would never get by the Supreme...
...shove in the opposite direction at the hands of the U. S. Government when the Navy Department announced the award of a 750,000-lb. contract at 8½? per Ib., lowest price in 14 months, to Milhauser Trading Corp.(copper brokers), one of the loudest opponents of the code. Domestic fabricators took the cue, dropped prices of all copper products 1? per Ib. Copper for export sank to 7¼? against a top of 7½? the previous day and 8½? the preceding month...