Word: coding
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Such changes are sought through voluntary action on the part of employers, especially hospital boards. Nurses, as members of a profession, do not come under any existing code...
...Sinclair: We have heard largely one side of the controversy-that of the complainant. . . . The fatal weakness of our Work up to this time . . . centres in not having secured at the very start of our investigation, a thoroughly competent professional staff of men-experts in code law and economic research. . . . But the majority of the Board has not seen fit to approach this investigation from the point of view of careful research and analysis. . . . We have received several thousand complaints . . . from small businessmen who claim they are being strangled under Various codes. . . . Most of the questions raised by the vast...
Darrow Criticism: Small producers were not allowed to share in making the code. Large producers make small exhibitors agree to take short films and newsreels in order to get the feature pictures from which most profits are made. Large producers demand a big share of small exhibitors' gross receipts, sometimes 35% for popular pictures, and dictate the days on which pictures shall be shown. The code gives distributors the right to fix admission prices. Many independent theatres cannot get popular pictures until their competitors have largely exhausted such pictures' drawing powers...
Richberg Answer: The code was assented to in writing by 9,039 members of the industry. Twenty-one complaining witnesses were heard by the [Darrow] board, including 15 out of 7,500 theatre operators. In contrast to 14 hours and 20 minutes of "hearings" by the board, NRA spent over 1,200 hours on the drafting of the code, heard 206 witnesses and obtained a code acceptable, not only to the industry, but approved by all the advisory boards of NRA. The board acted solely on the basis of a disorderly mass of unsworn and largely false testimony...
...headquarters codification troubles do not vary in direct proportion with the number of units to be codified. Aluminum, which consists of Aluminum Co. of America, still has no code. Neither has the telephone industry. The communications industry-Western Union, Postal Telegraph and other International Telephone & Telegraph units, American Telephone's telegraph business and Radio Corp.-had no code until last fortnight when, after months of wrangling, General Johnson threw the foursome a ready-made one which needed only the President's signature. Last week the telegraph and radio companies and their big customers had a last opportunity...