Word: coding
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...comment: "The legal and administrative compulsion to economic activity under penalty of capital and other punishment is so closely associated with the Soviet system of planning that a study of the U. S. S. R. economy at the present time should actually begin with an explanation of the criminal code. . . . The unusual duties which devolve nowadays on the Soviet public prosecutor may be judged from a statement made by M. Vyshinsky, the public prosecutor [at Moscow]: 'In the struggle for the realization of the harvest, one of the principal places by rights belongs to the organs of Soviet justice, Soviet...
...whopping corporate surplus ($173,000,000 at the last accounting) to give confidence. Mr. Drake's chief corporate worry last week came not from the oil business but from a Federal Grand Jury in Philadelphia which indicted Gulf Refining on 72 counts for working its employes longer than code hours during a labor squabble last July...
...Edward Jones, head of the National Petroleum Council, wrote President Roosevelt demanding the removal of Secretary Ickes as Administrator of the Petroleum Code. Mr. Ickes was accused of being ''incompetent, inexperienced, unqualified, temperamentally unfitted, unfair, biased . . . lacking in a proper conception of real government functions." Said the Jones letter: "He exhibits a poor and ridiculous management of the industry's affairs and plays upon public opinion by frightening the people about false issues such as an impending and imminent oil shortage, waste...
...President Roosevelt got a new right hand to manage one of the New Deal's most grievous problems: code enforcement. Sol Ariah Rosenblatt, 33-year-old Harvard graduate, formerly NRAdministrator in charge of the Amusement Code, was put in charge of all NRA enforcement officers in the U. S., given the job of passing on code violations. Thus he became in effect No. 2 man of the Recovery Administration...
...peasants of 20,000,000 pesos, of which 6,500,000 had been loaned to 1,200 peasant organizations at 8% by last week; 2) the spending of 15% of the Federal Government's budgetary outgo for education and 3.4% for public health; 3) reform of the Labor Code to insert social insurance in addition to the minimum wage recently decreed throughout Mexico of 1¼ pesos (42?) per day. Of this sum the National Revolutionary Party is proud, considering that peons by the million have long grubbed for less. To enforce even a 42? minimum will...