Word: coding
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...prisoners were segregated. He took from the perverts their frippery, sent them squealing to the barber to have their locks trimmed, saw that they remained alone in their own eating and living quarters. He charged the deputy warden with breaking almost every rule in the city's penological code, stripped Warden Joseph A. McCann of authority. Warden McCann's reaction was a feeble protest that, while Cleary was a "yellow rat," "Rao is the most valuable prisoner we have. Why, he's better than a deputy warden. When trouble developed, I could always...
...Ralph Pulitzer, who left the wilting New York World before his brothers Joseph and Herbert sold it in 1931, had wanted a more substantial reason for refusing General Johnson's call to public duty he could have found it in the fact that no newspaper code yet exists for him to administer. The business of drawing one up began last July. Last week, long after such tougher problems as coal, steel. autos, lumber, had been codified, the news paper code was still on President Roosevelt's desk waiting, ostensibly, for him to find time to sign...
First great rumpus on the newspaper code was over Freedom of the Press. Publisher Robert Rutherford McCormick of the Chicago Tribune last autumn was loudest in his objections to a code which did not redefine the constitutional rights of newspapers to say what they please. Could they, for example, be licensed out of business by a government disgruntled with their views? In December General Johnson stopped trying to reassure newspaper publishers that the code was not meant to be a gag by inserting a specific clause to the effect that the government got no censoring rights...
More haggling occurred over the matter of whether reporters were ''professional persons" and therefore exempt from the 40-hr, a week clause. The American Newspaper Guild, formed last autumn, helped evolve a satisfactory compromise by requiring the code to make a survey of editorial hours and wages...
...third and last important obstacle to newspaper code was the question of child labor. Almost all U. S. newspapers use newsboys, of which there are 570,000 in the U. S. All NRA codes signed so far prohibit child labor. Newspapers resent being told not to use newsboys. Last week, the Bronx Home News discharged 100 newsboys who had tried to organize a carriers' union...