Word: coding
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...decision at least admonishes Congress that it has a duty to legislate and not abdicate. The logic of the decision would seem clearly to include the codes of so-called fair competition. Let me give you an illustration. A man writes me he wanted to start an ice plant. The community wanted him to start an ice plant. The Code Authority issued an order that he could not start an ice plant. One of the parties issuing the order was a man who had an ice plant in the same town. If the man violates this order he is sent...
...public does not find such prices a barrier to buying. Hence man by man, hour by hour, Business rose to argue and protest against what NRA proposed. The substance of the argument was put on its highest plane by George A. Sloan, head of the Cotton Textile Code Authority: ''Maximum hours and minimum wage provisions, useful and necessary as they are in themselves, do not prevent price demoralization. While putting the units of an industry on a fair competitive level in so far as labor costs are concerned, they do not prevent destructive price cutting in the sale...
Furthermore, the Oil Code, undisturbed by the Supreme Court's decision, was still in force. That code was supposed to outlaw hot oil but, through an "error" which was not discovered for nearly a year, the pertinent section was missing from certified official copies...
...Administration, however, has no intention of confining its strenuous strivings for Federal regulation of a great natural resource to a mere code. But Vice President Garner and some of Mr. Roosevelt's best legislative friends are good Texas Democrats who mortally hate & fear the thought of Federal meddling in their State's biggest business. It was the Texas delegation that succeeded in shelving the toothy Thomas-Disney oil control bill in the last session of Congress. Even last week Texas' Congressman Sam Rayburn, who chairmans the powerful House Interstate Commerce Committee, took time out to thunder...
...vastest concentration of industry the world has ever seen by establishing small accessory plants in rural districts where workers can live on the land. He and his lady are seen more frequently at Detroit social functions. His spat with the Administration over his stubborn refusal to sign the Automobile Code is forgiven & forgotten...