Word: coding
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Meanwhile courts in Missouri, New York and Wisconsin continued to pull more legal feathers from the Blue Eagle's already skimpy tail. In New Orleans Senator Borah's nephew, Judge Wayne Borah, refused to grant an injunction restraining a box company from alleged violation of the lumber code, pointedly added: "Personally, I believe the whole NIRA is unconstitutional." The Senate Finance Committee, whose Chairman Pat Harrison had maneuvered an NRA investigation out of unfriendly hands into his own, was already committed to major changes as it began hearings on NRA's renewal. And to cap its other...
...Reynolds Tobacco Co. (Camels), Labor has been unalterably opposed to Samuel Clay Williams as NIRB Chairman since the day he succeeded NRAdministrator Hugh Johnson (TIME, Feb. 25). Because he believed that Mr. Williams had given employers the better of the bargain when he helped frame the preliminary cigaret code before he came to NRA, President Ira Milard Ornburn of the A. F. of L. cigar makers' union introduced a resolution at last autumn's Federation convention urging President Roosevelt to reconsider Mr. Williams' promotion. A "Dear Bill" letter from the White House...
...January when the automobile code came up for renewal, Chairman Williams and the other NIRB business member voted to have the code renewed practically as is. The other three board members voted against it. Thereupon Chairman Williams took his minority report to President Roosevelt, got it approved. Upshot was that pressure chiefly from Labor last week eased Samuel Clay Williams out of a job that he never wanted anyway...
...board chairman of Kentucky Home Life Insurance Co. No friend, to the New Deal, he recently ruled that condemnation of private property for PWA slum clearance was beyond the Federal Government's authority. And for the second time he declared last week that the NRA Coal Code was illegal...
Granting again a temporary injunction to 35 western Kentucky soft coal operators against the code authority's enforcement of its minimum wage scale, Judge Dawson ruled: "Whenever the Government unconstitutionally interferes with the right of a citizen to do business in his own way, that interference constitutes an injury to the property rights of the citizen; and that interference takes the form of exacting payment of wages in excess of what the citizen is willing to pay. To the extent of the increased wages, this citizen has been injured in his property rights. Surely, in such a situation...