Word: coding
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...course of his attack on the Constitutionality of the Recovery Act, an attorney for two Texas oil companies had mentioned to the Supreme Court the case of four oilmen jailed for violating a supposed provision of the Petroleum Code. A trial court ruled the provision unconstitutional. The Department of Justice prepared to appeal the decision only to discover that the provision was no part of the land's law. By some oversight it had been left out of the revised copy signed by President Roosevelt though included in printed copies circulated by the Petroleum Administration (TIME...
...Justice Brandeis: Are the facts recited in connection with this code applicable in general to the other codes...
Last week the following were news: Highest council in the steel industry is American Iron & Steel Institute, whose 32 directors administer the Steel Code. When President Robert Patterson Lamont, onetime (1929-32) Secretary of Commerce, resigned last year, the Iron & Steel Institute postponed electing a new president pending reorganization. Its members wanted an active steel executive at their head and a far-flung research staff to keep the industry and the public abreast of Steel's developments. Last week, its reorganization apparently completed, the Institute announced the election of Eugene Gifford Grace of Bethlehem Steel as president...
...game manufacturers, a small respectable family of 35, have their own NRA code. Like the four Mills brothers* who make vending machines adorned with plums and cherries, they keep at a safe distance from the sleazy arcades. They sell pin games to the wholesaler. The wholesaler sells them to the operator for $40 or $50. The operator takes a machine around to cafes, smoke shops, arcades, where he installs it with the permission of the owner, known as the "location" man. The operator and location man split 50-50 or 60-40 on the proceeds during the life...
...Orleans. He was promoted to hotel pressagent. The best publicity job he ever did was to provide Governor Huey Long with a free and luxurious suite of rooms. Governor Long made him Colonel Weiss, appointed him treasurer of the Long political machine. Soon "Colonel" Weiss was appointed NRA Hotel Code chairman for 13 Southern states. Last week he was elected president of the newly formed New Orleans Roosevelt Corp., operator of the Hotel Roosevelt and the Hotel Bienville. Twenty-four hours later a Federal Grand Jury indicted him for evading taxes on a $200,000 income...