Word: coded
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...deprived investors of their mete of profits. Their decision (it went into effect Dec. 1) was the first made under the Watson-Parker Railroad Act, and, although obedience by employers and workers is optional, they have set a precedent for labor arguments. This Act, passed last year, provides a code duello for railroaders, every nicety of which the factors of this case followed meticulously. Thus a year ago, the conductors and trainmen notified their employers that they wanted a 19% increase in pay-$38,000,000. "But no! we can't afford it," replied employers. "Let us send...
After a hubbub and by a vote of 53 to 42, the convention indorsed the proposed amendment to the Penal Code which would permit physicians to give contraceptive prescriptions to any married woman. Fervent advocates of the amendment hailed birth control as a means of preventing war, checking crime and disease...
...Powers recommended to the Government of China that if and when it shall come into existence it should draw up a civil and commercial code and modernize the Chinese judicial procedure. The Powers intimated that if and when this shall be accomplished they would consider gradual abandonment of extraterritoriality...
...Please ask your young collaborators henceforth to choose their code names from Greco-Roman mythology rather than from among their petites filles...
...what," cried M. Poincare, "is the code name of M. Briand [Foreign Minister...