Word: coding
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...President and were given to understand that the Federal Trade Commission might be given power to protect small businessmen, to restore some of the teeth in the anti-trust laws. To be sure, the Trade Commission at General Johnson's invitation sent a man to watch the code making. But nothing happened. So last week, with Congress solidly in session again, Messrs. Borah and Nye went forth to battle on the Senate floor...
...getting hot for the Administration. the President again stepped in, as he did on veterans' pension to make mollifying concessions to Congress. By executive order he directed the Federal Trade Commission to look out for the interests of any small business which appealed to it for help against code-born monopolies, directed that, if the Trade Commission could not help, the case should be passed along to the Department of Justice. In short the Federal Trade Commission was to check and balance...
Modest Ralph Pulitzer's reluctance to become the deputy NRAdministrator of the newspaper code arose from the NRA rule that no one financially interested in an industry should help supervise it for the government. Last week General Johnson swept aside the objections of the late great Joseph Pulitzer's eldest son to taking a Washington job thus...
...prizes to 92 "Champion Mothers" with an average of 14 living children apiece (TIME, Jan. 8). Thumbing on through her marriage cer tificate, the Italian bride comes upon these legal reminders: "Matrimony imposes on married couples the reciprocal obligations of cohabitation, faithfulness and assistance (Article 130 of the Civil Code)." "The husband is the head of the family. ... It is obligatory for her [a wife] to follow him wherever he sees fit to establish his residence (Art. 131)." When the children grow up, their parents can point sternly to other laws, further on in the marriage certificate: "Children are under...
After the compliance director, Mr. William H. Davis, had exhausted every seductive mannerism of voice, pleading and gesture, to get cleaners not in compliance with the price-fixing provisions of the code to comply, and all to no avail, two of the writers' clients, Abarbanell Bros. Inc. and Sterling Cleaners of Chicago were called to the platform before the director to answer to charges of non-compliance against them. The writer accompanied them and the compliance director merely stated in substance. "Now, Mr. Breakstone, you and I are both lawyers, and it will do no particular good...