Word: code
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Freshman Deaton also lunged, with the same result. Having satisfied their honor, Freshmen List and Deaton shook hands, stalked off. Said Blue Ridge's President Lynn H. Harris later: "I am sorry the story got out." Said Freshman List, haughtily: "I am a gentleman. I abide by the code duello. I refuse to discuss the identity of the lady and I refuse to discuss the duel...
...from the totalitarian states, and after finding the obvious definitions of majority rule and protected minority rights inadequate, reached three conclusions. First be listed the supremacy of reason ever brute force, second the importance of the individual mind as opposed to the mass mind, third the recognition of a code of reasoned justices...
...proud of the fact that they donate one million dollars' worth of free medical services to the needy every day and never refuse to help anyone, whether he can pay or not. Last week Southern physicians gasped as they heard of a bold infringement of this humanitarian code. Five of the eight doctors serving the 3,000 souls of Atmore, Ala., and five of their colleagues in cotton-growing Escambia County printed an advertisement in the Atmore Advance warning Escambia County's prospective mothers that henceforth they would demand cash on delivery. The ad: "We wish to take...
...with the insurance business was in the 1905-06 Arm strong Life Insurance Commission Investigation, which started Charles Evans Hughes on his career. Exposing all sorts of shenanigans by insurance executives, Investigator Hughes cleaned up most old-time insurance evils, was responsible for revising New York's insurance code (soon copied by most other States...
...good work in helping to clean up the U. S. cinema industry, most cinemaddicts were inclined to agree with him. Since then, U. S. cinema censors have grown bold enough to be a nuisance. Primary screen censor is the Hays organization in Hollywood, which has an elaborate code explaining what kind of pictures producers may or may not make. Secondary screen censors are State and municipal boards which, even when the Hays organization has passed a picture, can forbid its showing. Last week, the New York State Board of Censors forbade showings of Yes, My Darling Daughter, adapted from...