Word: coding
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Fortnight ago the Roosevelt Administration ducked its first opportunity for a clean-cut test of NRA's constitutionality when at the Government's request the Supreme Court dismissed the case against Lumberman William Elbert Belcher, who had deliberately refused to obey the Lumber Code (TIME, April 8). This procedure practically demoralized NRA's personnel, precipitated a nation-wide epidemic of petty code violations and put the Government in the equivocal position of asking for an extension of the NIRA without daring to risk a showdown on the Act's basic validity. To hush critical cries...
...sustaining NRA "right across the board," the Schechter decision barely placed NRA in the money. The Brothers Schechter operate the two largest jobbing plants in the unsavory $60,000,000-a-year Brooklyn poultry industry. Last year they were indicted on 19 counts for violating the Live Poultry Code. Seventeen counts found the Schechters outside the fair trade provisions of the code because they: 1) sold diseased and uninspected chickens; 2) permitted butchers to select the chickens they wanted killed; 3) filed false reports on their sales volume and price scale. Two other counts accused the Schechters of working their...
...employes. Since the Schechter chickens came from outside New York, the circuit judges found that they constituted merchandise in interstate commerce and were subject to NRA regulation. Upheld, therefore, was the trial court's decision that the Schechters had been guilty of unfair trade practices under the Poultry Code. But a majority of the Circuit Court ruled that the working conditions of employes in the Schechters' Brooklyn plants were no interstate affair and therefore none of NRA's business. In effect, the Court's ruling coincided with dozens of other Federal judicial opinions that the interstate...
...even a political idea and the rubber industry was quoting 34? per ft. as its top price for fire hose. The following July eight new bids were received by the city. Seven quoted 71? a ft., the eighth 75?. All were rejected. Last February, after the Rubber Code had been in effect for more than a year. New York City authorities were amazed to learn that the price had jumped to 82?. Furthermore, they had received 13 bids from 13 different companies all quoting an identical price. That was more than Mayor LaGuardia could stand. He threw out all bids...
...Wyndham Lewis, The Man Who Knew Too Much starts calmly enough in St. Moritz where Lawrence (Leslie Banks), his wife (Edna Best) and their small daughter (Nova Pilbeam) are performing winter sports. A fellow guest at their hotel is mysteriously shot. Dying, he begs Lawrence to find a code message in his room, deliver it to the British Foreign Office. Lawrence finds the message but before he can deliver it, the assassins have kidnapped his daughter, threatened to kill her if Lawrence carries out his mission...