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Harris Willingham was the man who had drafted the distillers' code which President Roosevelt had just signed at Warm Springs. Under that code the liquor traffic was reborn to find that, as for 200 years past in the U. S., it was still not considered quite respectable, was still to exist only by sufferance...
...output was forbidden, except under special circumstances. FACA had power to control production and distribution through a quota system. The Agricultural Adjustment Administration, under whose direction the liquor industry fell, had inserted a stipulation that the industry pay "parity" prices for its raw materials. In short, it was the code which most distillers had feared and hated and which they had no part in drafting...
...heels of the distillers' code came the importers' marketing agreement. Article III of this agreement provided for minimum import quotas based on the peak years 1910-14, in which the U. S. bought overseas some 4,000,000 gal. of spirits, some 7,000,000 gal. of wine yearly. No restrictions were placed on the number of U. S. importing firms, but the total business was to be distributed by FACA according to "legitimate trade needs" of individual houses...
Warring on chiselers, General Johnson last week summoned more than 100 cleaners, pressers, dyers to Washington for public hearings on charges of code violations, planned to conduct the sessions himself to give the U. S. a spectacular demonstration that the Blue Eagle has claws...
...Brooklyn David Lind and Moe Levine, operators of a filling station chain which never signed the NRA oil code, were indicted for having worked their employes 66 hours per week although the code permits but 48 hours, and for improper posting of gasoline prices. Last week they pleaded guilty "rather than be called obstructionists," were fined $400 (out of a possible $13,500). Elated at the outcome of the first criminal prosecution under the oil code, Secretary Ickes crowed, "A signal victory . . . most gratifying . . . a warning to other violators...