Few NRA tasks have cost President Roosevelt and General Johnson more time and trouble than the newspaper code. It all began last July when the Publishers' Association grumbled that the Press was not an industry, adaptable to codification. Haggles developed over three points: 1) the publishers, fearful of being "licensed" into silence and out of business, wanted a written-promise on Freedom of the Press; 2) they wanted newshawks and editors getting $35 per week or more exempted from maximum hours as "professional men"; 3) they wanted to continue using newsboys. Finally last fortnight...
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