Word: coding
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...President put his signature to the newspaper code, at the same time making three points which showed he was not at all pleased, 1) He was "not satisfied'' with its child labor provisions permitting boys under 16 to sell and deliver papers outside of school hours between 7 a. m. and 7 p. m. He ordered a report made to him in 60 days on how this provision should be revised. 2) He requested newspapers with circulations of 75,000 or operating in cities of over 750,000 to put their newshawks on a five day, 40-hour...
Last week General Hugh S. Johnson put into effect the Recovery Administration's 288th code - a code for the Graphic Arts...
...Whereas four months ago any speech by General Johnson, wherever delivered, made headlines throughout the U. S., today his words hardly make local headlines. Blue Eagles, posted up so proudly in shop windows last summer, are now faded and half-forgotten. Because "everybody" is supposed to be under a code, retail consumers no longer consciously pick and choose their stores...
Reasons for this sharp drop in public interest in NRA were plentiful. General Johnson has ceased giving daily dramatic performances in Washington. Normal working hours have softened his temper and his tongue. There are no more tycoons to be battled. The battalions of NRA propagandists have been disbanded. National code-making has almost petered out. Last week it was announced that barber shops, laundries, building managements, restaurants and local transportation would be encouraged to form their regional codes. Biggest NRA project afoot was not the making of codes, but a big meeting in Washington to air code criticisms, suggest revisions...
...were advanced: 1) NRA is legally beaten, a premature claim. For six months the Federal Government has artfully dodged any such ordeal by law. The only immediate test in sight resulted from a decision by a Federal court in Texas exempting local oil producers, not signers of the oil code, from code supervision because they were not engaged in interstate commerce. The oil code is, however, a specialized case which chiefly concerns not General Johnson but Secretary Ickes who last week promised a swift appeal to the Supreme Court. 2) NRA was supposed, by limiting hours of work...