Word: coding
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...taken shall be examined so that by public criticism and constant study of the facts mistakes may be pointed out before it is too late to remedy them. The NRA meeting this week, together with the sessions last week, marks a milestone in the history of American business. The code authority members here were chosen by industry itself. Many will protest against tariff changes. Members of Congress from districts that have had and need protective tariffs will declaim and conscientiously object to change. The vote will show a split in the Democratic as well as the Republican parties...
...were supporters who, from the first, have apologized for the behavior of the rest of the Press. Julius David Stern, publisher of the New York Evening Post and Philadelphia Record printed a front page box headlined "O. K., MR. PRESIDENT!" The Milwaukee Journal: "President Roosevelt has accepted the newspaper code with certain remarks which reflect the bad taste left in his mouth after months and months of unjustifiable delay. The delay and the haggling for advantages were carried on under the camouflage of a valiant fight for 'freedom of the press...
Operation, First direct action taken by the Publishers' Association was to get postponement of the code's effective date from Feb. 26 to March 12. Meanwhile the publishers had to contemplate the fact that 60 days hence the President expected something to be done about child labor and newshawks' hours. If not, the President was empowered by law to impose his own changes, an act which would make last week's uproar sound like soft sweet music...
...administer the Press code, General Johnson last week picked a big-framed, dynamic Irishman from. Iowa, named George D. Buckley...
...Henry Ford has been making steel for years but never enough to build all his automobiles. When the steel code stopped the discounts which steel's biggest customers were getting on their orders, a rumor spread that other motormakers would take a tip from Henry Ford and buy or build their own plants. Last week it was reported that Mr. Ford himself had started a $10,000,000 steel expansion program. United Engineering & Foundry Co. of Pittsburgh announced that he had ordered a complete set of rolling mills for his River Rouge plant...