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...money $10 a year I can secure better seats than other classmates and other Harvard men who cannot afford the $10 a year. My code of ethics says this is graft. F. W. C. Foster...
...each & every automobile dealer in the U. S. last week went a fat little pocket manual to put a stop to this competitive method of price cutting. As an appendage of the automobile dealers' code under NRA, the manual listed the maximum trade-in allowance on every make and model of car. No dealer could offer a customer more without violating the code. risking punishment. The prices listed were compiled from nation-wide second-hand sales by the National Automobile Dealers Association, which issues its Official Used Car Guide on prices each month...
...consumer may not get so large an allowance under the code but he will at least get the benefit of strict provisions against misrepresentations. The unhappy buyer of a "doped" car can go straight to the district code Administrator with his tale of a tampered speedometer, sawdust in the gears, ground cork in the differential...
Last week Harvard's famed President Emeritus Abbott Lawrence Lowell found himself flanked in the news by Comedians Marie Dressier and Eddie Cantor. All three had been added to the board of ten producers and distributors whose duty it is to enforce the cinema code when it goes into effect this week. The choice of Marie Dressier and Eddie Cantor to represent the industry's performers was easy to understand. Comedian Dressier is a White House intimate of the Roosevelt family. Comedian Cantor visited Warm Springs last fortnight as representative of Hollywood's newly-formed Actors...
...succeed Princeton's late John Grier Hibben as chairman of the Motion Picture Research Council, which attempts to elevate the moral tone of the cinema industry. Last month, his name popped into Variety for the first time when he requested President Roosevelt to include in the cinema code a provision against "block-booking," whereby producers require exhibitors to take pictures by groups instead of singly. Block-booking is the most familiar alibi of exhibitors who show morally deleterious films. Their real reason for disliking block-booking is that it compels them to take pictures on which they cannot make...