Word: coding
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Fish about it all. The doctor is the head of public school system in Gary, Indiana, one of the larger fiefs in the domain of the United States Steel Corporation, named in honor of the late lord of that house. Judge Gary's ghost, outraged at what the Code Age has done to his life work, must be haunting the purlieus of Gary nightly and scaring the good doctor to death...
Meantime diplomats were buzzing in Washington, in Athens and in Ankara on the bare uplands of Asia Minor. U. S. Ambassador Skinner was pressing a request that the Turks arrest Mr. Insull under Article IX of the Turkish penal code permitting the detention of foreigners accused in their countries of crimes not of a political or military nature. A cablegram was delivered from Greek Foreign Minister Maximos protesting the detention of the Maiotis. Turkish Foreign Minister Tewfik Bey and confrères considered: Should they oblige the U. S. or should they offend Greece? It was not a difficult question...
...investors (except professional security buyers) ever read even the few material facts in the old one-page prospectus. Today a prospectus for a big corporative issue contains 50 or 60 pages of facts. ¶ Lately the Senate asked the Federal Trade Commission to investigate monopolistic tendencies under the Steel Code. Last week in a 70-page report the Commission said that the Steel Code did indeed foster monopoly. It struck at the domination of the Code Authority by a handful of big producers, flayed the price-fixing provisions. Particularly obnoxious to the Commission was restoration of the ancient "Pittsburgh plus...
...still going on. But it was news indeed last week when a Federal grand jury in Los Angeles indicted and ordered arrested the top executives in two of the biggest oil companies on the Pacific Coast for aiding and abetting the price war and for violating the Oil Code...
...defendants: Standard Oil Co. of California; Associated Oil Co. of California (controlled by Tidewater); three alleged subsidiaries; Standard's President Kenneth R. Kingsbury. who is a member of the oil code's Planning and Coordinating Committee, Vice President Oscar Sutro. nine other officers and directors; Associated's President William F. Humphrey. 15 other officers and directors, including Paul Shoup. vice chairman of Southern Pacific Co. Indictments were based on no less than 185 counts for Associated, 149 for Standard, including one for each day's violation of the oil code after it was signed...