Word: coding
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...pictures; it gives exhibitors an excuse for exhibiting morally bad pictures. All reform agencies in the cinema have objected to block booking; none has ever made any headway in preventing it from becoming standard practice in the industry. Even such a product of the New Deal as the Cinema Code had to bow to block booking-a fact which caused Dr. Lowell to refuse a seat on the Code Authority (TIME, Jan. 1). Remarked cynical Terry Ramsaye in his Motion Picture Herald: "With a great flourish to publicity in the lay press it is announced that Mrs. August Belmont...
...took a complaint against a big firm into court. Attorney General Cummings applied to a Federal district court in Delaware to issue an injunction restraining Weirton Steel Co. from violating Section 7 (a). This merely transferred to court the old fight on whether Weirton Steel had violated the steel code in refusing to recognize the A. F. of L. steel union, forming its own company union, and declining to supply a list of its employes for the National Labor Board to hold a poll on union preference. Promptly the leaders of the A. F. of L. steel union marched...
...over the water in a series of monotonous victories. This spring with a strong, heavy crew Oxford set about the business of acquiring a victory for a change. Practices were guarded and secret. A system of buzzers and bells was rigged in the boat to signal the beat in code, so the rival cox could not count the stroke. There were special instruction sessions in the London Rowing Club tank. The crew was shifted this way and that. No expense was spared to get a pair of specially designed shells. Thinking the new shells too slim, coaches ordered another...
...automobile industry in particular has reason to suspect the good faith of the NRA. After considerable discussion there was inserted in the code of the motor group a provision to the effect that collective bargaining would not in any way impair the right of the employer to promote or discharge on the basis of merit and efficiency. No sooner had this clause been approved when it was publicly repudiated by the NRA in response to the protests of organized labor. No other industry was later permitted to have a similar clause and for all practical purposes the famous merit clause...
...another code drafted by the NRA itself appears the following provision: "subject to such rules and regulations as may be issued by the administrator...