Word: coding
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...morning last week 3,500 businessmen marched past the west side of the White House grounds and through the classic portals of Constitution Hall. They were the NRA code representatives, trade association executives and bigwigs of industry. They took seats in the great auditorium which the Daughters of the American Revolution built, seats which the Daughters themselves warm but once a year. The platform was gay with flags and banners. A red-coated Army band played "Who's Afraid of the Big Bad Wolf?" The adjutants of industry spoke softly to one another...
...began "Our Father, which art in Heaven. . . ." Piously the 3,500 businessmen mumbled the familiar phrases. The prayer over. General Johnson, who had just concluded a four-day wrestle with the critics of NRA (see p. 15), stepped forward to begin his second wrestling bout, this time with the code authorities. But first he introduced President Roosevelt who, before a microphone, delivered a speech designed to crush his critics and rally his followers to a fresh advance under the Blue Eagle...
...little fellow: You on code authorities are your industrial brother's keeper and especially are you the keeper of your small industrial brother. We must set up every safeguard against erasing the small operator from the economic scene. . . . The anti-trust laws must continue in their major purpose of retaining competition and preventing monopoly. It is only where these laws have prevented the cooperation to eliminate things like child labor and sweatshops, starvation wages and other unfair practices that there is justification in modifying them...
When the majority of American newspapers rose up in arms against the proposed code for their industry under the N.R.A., many of them were doubtless quite sincere in their belief that such a course would develop into an infringement of the constitutional rights of the uncensored press. On the other hand, it was widely thought, though not quite so widely printed, naturally, in the papers, that the industry was afraid of an investigation of its methods of circulation, particularly the practice of employing children to sell the sheets in the streets. Mayor LaGuardia of New York has uncovered quite...
...group meetings of the code authorities, Dr. Hettinger, one of the NRA's own economists, in a frank debate with General Johnson questioned the soundness of the latter's request that hours be decreased and payrolls augmented too. The objection made was against any inflexible rule or percentage. It was asserted that the consumer industries are in good shape and that less than ten per cent of the unemployed today are from those consumer businesses, whereas reliable figues show that 90 per cent of the idle originally were at work in heavier industries or service businesses related to them...