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...Most important of more than two dozen codes signed by the President were 1) a cinema code containing "drastic provisions" against excessive cinema salaries; 2) a liquor code designed to "control the industry until . . . Congress shall pass suitable legislation...
...Lowell, who has long been an advocate of government censorship, was invited to serve as one of the three President's representatives on the motion picture NRA code authority, "in order to observe the operations of the engagement of the industry itself to comply with its own rules of censorship of improper pictures and dialogue...
Eight, clarification at an early date of the part the government is to play in the various code authorities to be set up under the NRA so that the relation of government to the profit-making system may clear up doubts as to future tax revenues...
...This will show that the National Recovery Act has teeth in it," snapped U. S. Attorney Howard W. Ameli of Brooklyn. Counsel for the defense retorted: "We did not sign the code, but a number of our competitors who did sign it, proceeded to violate it. ... In order to compete with them and keep our business going we had to work our men the same number of hours that they did. We refuse to be made the goat. This case may bust the whole NRA question wide open...
Last week President Alfred Pritchard Sloan Jr. took the lead in his industry by announcing that prices of General Motors' entire 1934 line would be upped from 10% to 15% because of rising costs of labor and materials under the NRA automobile code. Of equal interest to motorists was his announcement that all GM's new models would feature independent front wheel suspension, which has been used sparingly in Europe for several years. Said Motorman Sloan...