Word: coding
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...First came official acts that needed haste. He held a Cabinet meeting. He signed the Johnson bill forbidding loans to defaulting nations, signed a joint resolution directing the Federal Power Commission to study electric power rates throughout the U. S., signed an administrative order to enable NRA code authorities to assess all code members for the cost of code administration...
Among the male guests was Robert Walter Bruere, a social theorist from Sneden's Landing, artistic colony up the Hudson from New York. He is chairman of the cotton textile code's advisory board. David Coyle is a theoretical writer on business & finance as well as a consulting engineer, graduate of Princeton and Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute. He worked on the New York Life building, the Roerich Museum and built a home for himself at Bronxville, N. Y. with no heating arrangements on the second floor because Mr. Coyle believes that people should sleep in very cold rooms. Just...
Behind him he left orders for the greatest NRA shakeup since last summer. Part of a logical transition from code-making to enforcement, it decentralized authority, delegated to an administrative staff many of the powers he formerly exercised. To head this staff he appointed Lieut.-Colonel G. A. Lynch, whom he described as "the most advanced thinker in the U. S. Army." Col. Lynch, a classmate of General Johnson at West Point, was detached from the infantry and assigned to the NRA two weeks...
...sincere story in "Men in White," of the young interne's struggle against the physician's code loses little of its power on the screen. Although the problem of adaptation was made easier by the comparative unimportance of the love motive, able direction is chiefly responsible for its success...
Other companies like General Electric and Pillsbury Flour followed the lead of Steel last week in boosting pay levels. But the procession was not so long nor so effusive as that which preceded the battle of the codes last summer. When General Johnson sent a questionnaire to all code authorities last week, bluntly asking whether they intended to comply with the Roosevelt wage program and if not, why not, Washington interpreted it as a sign that a President's wish may soon become a President's order...