Word: coding
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...strike in return for passage of the Guffey bill. This measure, devised and sponsored by the first Democratic Senator from Pennsylvania in 54 years, would declare soft coal a public utility; authorize the Government to buy up $300,000,000 worth of submarginal coal lands; enforce adherence to a code by means of a tax, 99% of which would be remitted to subscribing operators. Last week Miner Lewis' coal strike was within 48 hours of going into effect and Senator Guffey's coal bill had not even emerged from committee. While Congress haggled, President Roosevelt called in Miner...
Premier Gömbös' position was delicate. He is a graduate of the Military Training School for Gymnastics & Fencing, a member of the Hungarian military elite, a crack swordsman and pistol shot, wounded and decorated in the War and now a Field Marshal. The Hungarian military code of honor demanded that Soldier Gömbös give Civilian Eckhardt satisfaction, as he has already done for many another man. But Politician Gömbös, as realistic as he is vain, might be seriously compromised by a duel. For as Premier it is his uncongenial...
...FORMER CODE AUTHORITY DIRECTOR, aggressive, capable, seeks executive position; experienced organizer, salesmanager, sales agency or promotional work. Has well-organized, experienced and efficient staff, if necessary...
...city editor of the Chicago Tribune, later as managing editor of Hearst's Herald & Examiner during the most rough-&-tumble era of Chicago journalism, Walter Howey was a profane romanticist, ruthless but not cruel, unscrupulous but endowed with a private code of ethics. He was the sort of newsman who managed to have hell break loose right under his feet, expected similar miracles from his underlings, rewarded them generously. Undersized, unprepossessing, he was afraid of nothing...
...Industries with chronic overproduction or a vast number of small-units will miss code discipline the most. The ugly problem of wage & hour differentials between the North and South was again to the fore in textiles and coal-complicated as always by excess capacity. Cement and fertilizer makers were nervous about prices. Copper men hoped to continue their curtailment program on a voluntary basis. In the liquor industry with its six codes scrapped price-cutting came early and easily...