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Behind him he left orders for the greatest NRA shakeup since last summer. Part of a logical transition from code-making to enforcement, it decentralized authority, delegated to an administrative staff many of the powers he formerly exercised. To head this staff he appointed Lieut.-Colonel G. A. Lynch, whom he described as "the most advanced thinker in the U. S. Army." Col. Lynch, a classmate of General Johnson at West Point, was detached from the infantry and assigned to the NRA two weeks...
...Fish about it all. The doctor is the head of public school system in Gary, Indiana, one of the larger fiefs in the domain of the United States Steel Corporation, named in honor of the late lord of that house. Judge Gary's ghost, outraged at what the Code Age has done to his life work, must be haunting the purlieus of Gary nightly and scaring the good doctor to death...
Meantime diplomats were buzzing in Washington, in Athens and in Ankara on the bare uplands of Asia Minor. U. S. Ambassador Skinner was pressing a request that the Turks arrest Mr. Insull under Article IX of the Turkish penal code permitting the detention of foreigners accused in their countries of crimes not of a political or military nature. A cablegram was delivered from Greek Foreign Minister Maximos protesting the detention of the Maiotis. Turkish Foreign Minister Tewfik Bey and confrères considered: Should they oblige the U. S. or should they offend Greece? It was not a difficult question...
Other companies like General Electric and Pillsbury Flour followed the lead of Steel last week in boosting pay levels. But the procession was not so long nor so effusive as that which preceded the battle of the codes last summer. When General Johnson sent a questionnaire to all code authorities last week, bluntly asking whether they intended to comply with the Roosevelt wage program and if not, why not, Washington interpreted it as a sign that a President's wish may soon become a President's order...
...defendants: Standard Oil Co. of California; Associated Oil Co. of California (controlled by Tidewater); three alleged subsidiaries; Standard's President Kenneth R. Kingsbury. who is a member of the oil code's Planning and Coordinating Committee, Vice President Oscar Sutro. nine other officers and directors; Associated's President William F. Humphrey. 15 other officers and directors, including Paul Shoup. vice chairman of Southern Pacific Co. Indictments were based on no less than 185 counts for Associated, 149 for Standard, including one for each day's violation of the oil code after it was signed...