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Policy. As erroneous as the Press's interpretation of the Fleet's exercises is the public conception of the reason for the Fleet's recall from the Pacific to the Atlantic. To most laymen, Naval Policy is a secret code formulated by a few admirals in Washington who spend their days hankering for war. There is nothing mysterious or alarming about U. S. Naval Policy. Any citizen, if he likes, can have a copy of it, signed by Secretary Swanson, and printed in bold type on a single sheet of paper 2 ft. square to hang...
Rustler's Code; Lamp Post
Postal was backing the code, said President White, ''in the hope that they will produce a situation which will either force a consolidation of the telegraph companies, now prohibited by Federal law, or force the Government to take over the properties...
...Sosthenes Behn was on hand to defend Postal's stand. But Vice President Howard L. Kern, taking a tip from the Senate Banking & Currency Committee, hoisted the red flag of "unfair propaganda." Anyone with half an eye, said he, could see that "the code proposed by NRA was designed to meet the abuses pointed out by Western Union representatives themselves." Though the code would cost Postal $2,767,000 per year in increased wages, the company was willing to subscribe to it in the hope of "eventual benefits...
...whose 4,400 teletypes compete with both telegraph companies, sided with Western Union against the imposition of a code. Radio Corp., whose stake in the domestic communications business is relatively small, was willing to sign anything that its competitors did. But President White made it clear that Western Union would accept what he thought was a Postal code only by court order. His counsel, maintaining that Congress had no intention of codifying an industry already regulated by the Interstate Commerce Commission, swore that Western Union was ready to wage "a legal contest along all fronts...