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There remain only something over 110 men still to secure places, a record which has not been attained since 1930. The main positions open are in finance, sales, and accounting offices, particularly in industrial and general (C.P.A.) accounting because of code emphasis on prices. A large number have found employment in retail department stores and in the sales departments of large firms...
...jobbing plants in the $60,000,000-a-year Brooklyn live poultry business. They stoutly refused to let the Blue Eagle roost among their chickens, so the Government indicted them on 19 counts. Two trial courts found the Schechters guilty of violating the fair trade provisions of the poultry code: selling diseased fowl; filing false sales volume and price scale reports; permitting butchers to select the chickens they wanted killed, in spite of the code's insistence on "straight killing." But neither lower court found the Schechters outside the law because they worked employes longer than code hours, paid...
Busy at Leipzig last week drafting the new German Penal Code called for by Adolf Hitler, Judiciary Commissar Hans Frank said it will "contain a new category of punishment, 'Civic Death,' reducing the status of the condemned to that of a permanent outcast." As an afterthought, Dr. Frank recalled that the ancient Huns had a somewhat similar procedure of driving an offender out of the tribe to starve or be eaten by wild beasts. "We are in fact reviving," he observed, "an old German custom...
...from Frank Parish's business correspondence. She got a job in his office in August 1930 and for over a year stuffed carbon copies of his letters into a zipper compartment of her purse. Juicy bits of information were forwarded to Cities Service by means of an elaborate code. Mr. Parish was referred to as a "persimmon." Vice President S. J. Maddin was a "pineapple.'' an other official a "gooseberry." Missouri-Kansas was called "lemons." The Chicago Stock Exchange was "blackberries," the New York Stock Exchange "dewberries." In 1931 Frank Parish began to grow suspicious. Spy Walker...
...told a newshawk: "It's got to be done, and if I fail it means annihilation for me. ... At the least sign of slowing up, my enemies inside and out-side the Church would nail me. They wouldn't pay much attention to the sportsman's code about shooting a sitting bird...