Word: file
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...clearing house for domestic sales; 2) monthly sales quotas of 20,500 tons of virgin copper, 9,500 tons of scrap. The Secretary of the Code Authority, Ralph R. Eckert, was appointed Sales Clearing Agent, whose prime function is to keep sales within the quota. Producers must file with him a copy of all sales and the price per pound. Price changes must be filed 24 hours in advance, thus preventing one company from stealing a march on its competitors. The code specifically forbids destructive price cutting, gives the Code Authority power to fix prices in an emergency or suspend...
...vehemently denied that he was asking for closed shop. In this difference there was room for compromise-except for one material circumstance: Mr. Tighe's subchiefs were on a rampage. While the steelmasters met in Manhattan and Mr. Tighe spent much of the week in Cleveland, a Rank & File Committee, composed of the heads of local Amalgamated lodges, were in Washington making life hot for General Johnson...
...Rank & File Committee was in a belligerent mood, and soon grew more so. They said: "We'd like to see General Johnson walk up to an open-hearth furnace and get his summer pants scorched for $21.84 a week." The hard-boiled ex-cavalry officer retorted that in the saddle he had worn enough skin off his fundament to make half a dozen such critics as the Rank & Filers. Next morning he read in the papers an open letter to himself...
...military code of May 9, 1930. There are notable changes. The soldiers' code now has no reference either to the constitution or the German Republic. Omitted is the formal prohibition against soldiers' playing an active part in politics. The old democratic right of German soldiers to file complaints against the acts of their officers has also been dropped. Cancelled is this old promise: "The road to the highest posts stands open to all according to capacity and achievements...
...private business, has amply proved his thesis of the need for brilliant professional public servants in the U. S. He never tires of pointing at Great Britain's Civil Service tc show what he would do about it. The U. S. Civil Service has a similar rank & file of clerks and technicians, but nothing approaching the 1,500 career men who run things at the top. Can and will the U. S. have such an aristocracy of brains at its helm? "Guarantee them security and a chance for promotion," declared