Word: coding
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...concerned not only with censorship. Press freedom was also threatened, he told the Yalemen, by "demands to make expenditures which are not economically desired or possible." By that definition, the Missouri convention of the NEA last week found a new challenge to freedom in the proposed NRA communications code. Section 4 of the code forbids rate discrimination in favor of any class of user. Did that threaten the traditional telegraph press rate (one-third of the full day rate, one-sixth of the full night rate) by which U. S. newspapers save $10,000,000 a year? The NEA feared...
...response to a Senate resolution the Federal Trade Commission last week reported that the oil code had cost U. S. motorists $160,550,000. In 272 cities covered by the survey up to Jan. 31, gasoline prices had risen an average of 1.04? a gal. since July 1, a month before the code was signed. The Commission also reported that combined State and Federal taxes, which have nothing to do with the code, averaged 5.14? a gal., or $700,000,000 annually. Highest State taxes were in Florida and Tennessee (7?), lowest in Connecticut. District of Columbia, Missouri and Rhode...
...insistence of the old guard in the sacredness of the Constitution, Like the Washington myth, it dies hard, and becomes an article of faith, not of reason. Seemingly no logic can reveal the Constitution for what is is: a document designed by the Fathers to furnish a working code of government, but which, being framed in an emergency one hundred and fifty years ago, as the Senator himself admits, is admittedly an imperfect instrument and subject, like all the works of man, to the wear and tear of circumstance. Although it may be true that permitting the President to exercise...
...think that Philbrick sincerely believes in his political theories, and thus is fully entitled to express those theories, but I hold that no act should be condoned, let along perpetrated, that is incompatible with the code of a gentleman. Nixon de Tarnowsky...
...Opposition to penalizing taxes as a dangerous and unwarranted infringement of "individual rights." 6) Confining codes to basic interstate businesses and fuller use of trade associations in code administration...