Word: coding
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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When a cinema code was finally adopted last autumn, President Roosevelt suspended, pending further investigation, two clauses which seemed particularly galling to the industry. One clause declared against "excessive" salaries; the other prohibited producers from raiding their rivals' star performers with offers of higher salaries. When cinema companies began going bankrupt, Hollywood ceased to brag of its wage scale and cinema employes began to take unusual pains to get their Federal income tax returns just right. Last week, NRA Division Administrator Sol Arian Rosenblatt, able Broadway lawyer, made his long-awaited report on stars and salaries...
...board appointed by the President. They could "find facts," offer to arbitrate but force no sort of peace. NRA likewise had no power. Said General Johnson in Portland: "The seat of the trouble out here is the fact that, due to cross currents, the shipping industry has no code...
...year ago Hugh S. Johnson went to Washington to spend a few weeks putting U. S. Industries under NRA codes. Weeks dragged into months, months into a year. Last week when it came time for the general to take a vacation his score stood: 476 codes made, 262 to go. But the hard-talking NRAdministrator would not go vacationing with his job left in that unsettled state. He delivered an edict: All code-making must be wound up before he gets back to his desk. Then, his conscience content, he hopped an Army airplane with Secretary Frances ("Robbie") Robinson...
These industries were hardly caviar to the general. He ordered them to : 1) complete their proposed codes in 15 days; or 2) join up with allied industries already under codes; or 3 ) accept a new basic code containing general labor and hour provisions to which they might later add trade-practice requirements...
Having made this edict to end all code-making in 30 days, he announced that he had written the President that as soon as code making was done NRA would cease to be a one-man job and should be administered by a non-partisan commission. Then, lest the public entertain any premature hopes of his early retirement, he added...