Word: code
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Aside from the obvious moral objection to diverting WPA's relief "wages" to political ends, the legal fact remained that the money is paid by the U. S. Treasury and that Section No. 208 of the U. S. Criminal Code specifically prohibits recipients of Federal funds from soliciting each other for political contributions...
...Bushido: the unwritten chivalric code of Japan's oldtime samurai (warriors...
...Section 208, Title 18 of the Federal criminal code declares it unlawful for any Senator, Representative, "officer or employee of the United States" to solicit political funds "from any other such officer, employee or person." Last week while Pennsylvania's Senator Guffey was in Europe, letters over his signature to all WPA workers in Pennsylvania (270,000 of them) solicited campaign funds. Chairman Sheppard of the Senate campaign funds committee said, "At first blush I can't see where this comes under our resolution." Then he blushed again, called a committee meeting to cogitate Senator Guffey...
...took over in his shop in 1929, denied that the free press was in peril but conceded that newspapers "love to trifle with the idea." Recalling a time when corruption of the press was common, and looking forward to a day when all newspapers would live up to the code of ethics observed by the best, Mr. Michelson mused: "But even in that better day, if it ever arrives, I darkly suspect that whenever the occasion offers, the press will rise in a body to shadowbox with a nonexistent peril and write about the freedom of the press...
...Farmingdale, L. I., charged with shipping information on U. S. Army planes to Germany; Guenther Rumrich; a U. S. Army private named Erich Glaser; red-headed Johanna Hofmann, a hairdresser on the German liner Europa and messenger of the ring, charged with transmitting to their employers the secret code used by Army planes in communicating with their stations. Since the U. S., unlike Germany, does not punish espionage by death in peacetime, stiffest sentence the spies faced on any count was 20 years imprisonment...