Word: submitted
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...charge of the "hot oil" order was Secretary of the Interior Ickes who had done much to get the petroleum industry on record against this brand of 'legging. He promptly issued drastic enforcement regulations which carried fines and imprisonment for all violators. Each producer is required to submit to Washington a monthly report of how much oil he takes from his wells, how much he sells, where the balance is-with a sworn statement that none of his transactions has violated the law. Refiners must do likewise. Railroad and pipeline companies likewise must have substantial proof under oath that...
...Watched Chancellor of the Exchequer Neville Chamberlain, a statesman far too aloof to squirm, submit in frigid silence to tongue lashings by Laborite and Conservative back benchers who compared him unfavorably to President Roosevelt...
Into Line. First to submit a model code was the cotton textile industry, through a committee said to represent two-thirds of the textile millers. Pending approval in public hearing June 27, the code provides a minimum wage of $10 a week in southern mills. $11 in the north, a 44-hr, week, and acknowledgement of employes' right to collective bargaining. The coal men in Chicago were preparing a code. The American Petroleum Institute was also doing spadework in Chicago, while to Washington the independents sent their own recommendations. At Bloomfield, Ind., 30 Indiana limestone producers agreed...
...released a flood of Grade B patronage. At his command the Senate sat for twelve-hour stretches. Oldsters could recall nothing to match the Roosevelt drive for adjournment. But at the last moment the President made a tactical error which cost him his whole week's work. Submitted to Congress at 8 o'clock Saturday night was an executive order for minor Government reorganizations which the President estimated would save $25,000,000 per year. The Bureaus of Immigration and Naturalization were to be merged. The National Screw Thread Commission was to be abolished. The Shipping Board...
...canceling a license he may put one concern or a whole industry out of business until it is ready to subscribe to a fair trade code. The licensing period is one year instead of two. Last week many a manufacturer was threatening to shut up shop altogether rather than submit to this gun-at-head provision...