Word: coding
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...troubled little baker in Glenns Ferry, Idaho (pop. 1,414), last week was E. W. Nestak. He had been charging his fellow townsmen 9¢ a loaf for fine unsliced white bread when an order came from the NRA Bakery Code Administrator to boost his price to 10¢. Honest Baker Nestak thought it best to obey but he also wrote to his senior U. S. Senator to ask if the order was legal and binding...
...important news which happens not to be in accord with some editorial policy or opinion. , . . That is domination of the press and when it is practiced by a great chain of newspapers under one-man control it becomes a public menace.? ... I wish the newspapers would submit a code containing provisions which would leave elimination of such practices to their own self-governing bodies. They are the only industry that has declined...
...children the bludgeon of NRA PROHIBITIONS (see cut). Caption: "New York:?Mrs. Katherine Budd, a mother with two children to support, was informed that President Roosevelt had turned down her plea for permission to work in her home making artificial flowers because 'THE PURPOSES OF THE NRA CODE WOULD BE DEFEATED...
Glad to leave blood-purged Berlin, where he nearly became a "suicide" month ago, Franz von Papen packed up in haste for Vienna where the Austrian Government had by no means decided to accept him as persona grata. Ignorant or careless of diplomacy's rigid code, Chancellor Hitler had committed the unheard of blunder of dispatching an envoy without the prior consent of the nation to which he is accredited. This left Austria free to administer a stinging snub which would make Adolf Hitler the laughing stock of Europe. In Vienna it was said that Benito Mussolini was strongly urging...
...result of the investigation was a recommendation by Administrator Rosenblatt that the suspension of code provisions on "excessive" salaries be continued indefinitely; that a committee be appointed to report whether cinemartisans should work for a minimum salary plus a percentage of the box office receipts. Declared Administrator Rosenblatt...