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...administrators for 90 more codes. Now in effect are 150 codes. Three hundred and seventy-seven more are yet to come. General Johnson makes all his industrial colonels do duty for many codes. The majority of new colonels came from the ranks of the four brigades into which NRA was originated (TIME, Nov. 6). Typical was Ralph Justin Fogg, Manhattan consulting engineer, longtime Lehigh engineering professor who built cantonments and shipyards during the War. Administrator Fogg got automatic sprinklers, concrete masonry, vitrified clay sewer pipes, four other authorities. Another colonel was wiry little Colonel George S. Brady, engineer and Wilsonian...
...from feeling grouchy toward NRA last week, many a U. S. business found new happiness in code life. Thus, the silk hosierymen notified Washington that their enforced 40-hr. week was piling up an unsold surplus. Right back came an order which, recognizing the industry's seasonal slump, stipulated that silk stockings were to be made throughout the nation only on Wednesdays, Thursdays and Fridays. The automotive industry, whose code expires Dec. 31, requested that it be extended to Sept. 1, 1934. Well pleased with NRA was the Synagogue Council of America, which voted the Administration thanks...
...steelmasters have an ingot to their names they will resist detested outside (A. F. of L.) unionization of their business. On this issue Founder Weir gave battle. In Washington last October, it was agreed between Weirton Steel and the heads of its Employes Organization and the NRA's Labor Board that Weirton's 12,000 striking workers would elect a new batch of employe representatives "during the second week in December . . . procedure to be prescribed by the Board...
...Gilbert Winant went to Manhattan to address the National Consumers' League. For the second time in 72 hours his name made national news. One of the brave little band of eight remaining Republican Governors. New Hampshire's Winant not only heartily endorsed Democratic President Roosevelt's NRA, but urged that its labor provisions be made permanent. "Jungle warfare," said he, "has no place in modern industry. The exploitation of workers . . . has been a deep, underlying cause of our lack of social advance." The Herald Tribune, supposedly behind the Presidential candidacy of its owner's cousin, Ogden...
...spreading his activities, took charge of the Share-the-Work movement in the 2nd Federal Reserve District under Standard Oil's Teagle. Last June he was summoned to Washington to act as go-between between the tycoons of the Industrial Advisory Board and the hard-boiled theorists of NRA. There he worked at his usual swift pace and demanded the same of his subordinates. One minute he would put in a long distance telephone call and the next grab up the receiver to demand "How about it?" Then he would go striding off down a corridor, pop into someone...