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Glad to leave blood-purged Berlin, where he nearly became a "suicide" month ago, Franz von Papen packed up in haste for Vienna where the Austrian Government had by no means decided to accept him as persona grata. Ignorant or careless of diplomacy's rigid code, Chancellor Hitler had committed the unheard of blunder of dispatching an envoy without the prior consent of the nation to which he is accredited. This left Austria free to administer a stinging snub which would make Adolf Hitler the laughing stock of Europe. In Vienna it was said that Benito Mussolini was strongly urging...
When a cinema code was finally adopted last autumn, President Roosevelt suspended, pending further investigation, two clauses which seemed particularly galling to the industry. One clause declared against "excessive" salaries; the other prohibited producers from raiding their rivals' star performers with offers of higher salaries. When cinema companies began going bankrupt, Hollywood ceased to brag of its wage scale and cinema employes began to take unusual pains to get their Federal income tax returns just right. Last week, NRA Division Administrator Sol Arian Rosenblatt, able Broadway lawyer, made his long-awaited report on stars and salaries...
...result of the investigation was a recommendation by Administrator Rosenblatt that the suspension of code provisions on "excessive" salaries be continued indefinitely; that a committee be appointed to report whether cinemartisans should work for a minimum salary plus a percentage of the box office receipts. Declared Administrator Rosenblatt...
These industries were hardly caviar to the general. He ordered them to : 1) complete their proposed codes in 15 days; or 2) join up with allied industries already under codes; or 3 ) accept a new basic code containing general labor and hour provisions to which they might later add trade-practice requirements...
Having made this edict to end all code-making in 30 days, he announced that he had written the President that as soon as code making was done NRA would cease to be a one-man job and should be administered by a non-partisan commission. Then, lest the public entertain any premature hopes of his early retirement, he added...