Word: coding
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Only persons to worry, however, about legal guilt were four Brooklyn poulterers, Joseph, Martin, Alex & Aaron Schechter. Were they guilty of violating the law of the land because, contrary to the Poultry Code, they had allowed their customers to pick what chickens they bought, instead of making customers take chickens by the coop, good and bad alike? Were they guilty because, also contrary to code, they had sold an allegedly sick chicken? Guilty for not paying their employes code wages, not working them code hours? For not making proper code reports? For conspiring to do these things? A Federal Circuit...
There remain only something over 110 men still to secure places, a record which has not been attained since 1930. The main positions open are in finance, sales, and accounting offices, particularly in industrial and general (C.P.A.) accounting because of code emphasis on prices. A large number have found employment in retail department stores and in the sales departments of large firms...
Without bothering to take a record vote, the Senate last week passed a resolution to extend NRA, not for two years but only to next April 1, to outlaw code price-fixing in all but mineral natural-resource industries, to exempt from code control "any person whose business is wholly intrastate...
...latest exponent. Last week his first novel, Fully Dressed and in His Right Mind tried to show skeptical readers that a hard-boiled manner could make even a fairytale come true. The result was more like a parody than a parable-as if General Hugh Johnson had written his code version of one of the rayon-gossamer fables of Oscar Wilde. But readers who were stunned into shocked attention by The Postman Always Rings Twice (TIME, Feb. 19, 1934) may fall under the spell of Author Fessier's glittering...
...from Frank Parish's business correspondence. She got a job in his office in August 1930 and for over a year stuffed carbon copies of his letters into a zipper compartment of her purse. Juicy bits of information were forwarded to Cities Service by means of an elaborate code. Mr. Parish was referred to as a "persimmon." Vice President S. J. Maddin was a "pineapple.'' an other official a "gooseberry." Missouri-Kansas was called "lemons." The Chicago Stock Exchange was "blackberries," the New York Stock Exchange "dewberries." In 1931 Frank Parish began to grow suspicious. Spy Walker...