Word: coding
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...cigaret code, lost in the White House office for days (TIME, Feb. 11), was found. Promptly the President signed it, bringing the big tobacco companies after 18 months' delay into NRA. Hardly had the President done so when William Green, who had just come off second-best in an argument with him, declared the A. F. of L. keenly disappointed that the minimum wage of the code was 25? an hour. One kick Mr. Green could not make: that S. Clay Williams, as head of NIRB and erstwhile president of R. J. Reynolds Tobacco Co., had been partial...
...renewal of the Automobile Code contrary to the wishes of the A. F. of L. followed by his blunt rebuff of A. F. of L. protests...
...time of strike. For the past year the Federation has worried, and the more it worried the more urgently the Federation sought Government assistance. And the more importunate the Federation became, the more reluctant the Government seemed to be to give aid, until finally, over the renewal of the code for the great automobile industry, the President and A. F. of L. definitely breached...
Newshawks asked President Roosevelt when he was going to sign the Cigaret Code. He answered that he did not know; it had been sent him five days before, had been lost in the White House offices...
...wiseacres saw significant strategy in the President's action: no lover of the publishers, he has been increasingly vexed by their mounting criticisms of the New Deal. Rather than give them the slightest justification for bolting NRA. he was leaning over backward to preserve the letter of the Code, thus paying out enough rope for the publishers to hang themselves. The White House apparently expected the Newspaper Industrial Board to deal quickly and fairly with the Jennings case or else hold its peace if the Government takes a hand...