Word: coded
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Surrounded by Admirals, Secretaries, experts both naval and diplomatic, for hours last week the President considered tonnages, gun sizes, British statements of naval requirements, U. S. counter-requirements. Then, while the White House, the State Department, the Navy Department still boiled with naval and financial statistics, long code messages were sent to Ambassador Dawes in London and presently it was definitely known that Britain's white-headed Prime Minister James Ramsay MacDonald would sail for the U. S. on Sept. 28 to confer personally on naval reductions with President Hoover. This milestone in the Hoover administration was soon followed...
What had happened evidently was that in Denver some person or persons unknown, having knowledge of the confidential code through which bankers transfer money, had written six coded wires, had fraudulently added the six Denver signatures. Banks customarily act upon these coded telegrams without checking back on them. Given a knowledge of the code and a willingness to misuse it, there was no great difficulty in working the $500,000 fraud. Sole precaution on the part of the defrauder was that the money should be collected before the trickery was discovered...
...Penal Code of the State of New York a section (No. 1530) providing for the closure of a public nuisance. There is a recent decision by the State Court of Appeals that a speakeasy is a public nuisance. Also in New York are Grover Aloysius Whalen, the Police Commissioner; Maurice Campbell, the local U. S. Prohibition Administrator; and a tidal sentiment against Prohibition.* Tall, blue-eyed, cinematically handsome, fastidiously dressed. Administrator Campbell rose to Major in the Army Ordnance Corps during the War. For three years (1919-22) he was a cinema director for Famous Players-Lasky (Oh, Lady, Lady...
Last week Administrator Campbell rolled up a batch of several hundred uninvestigated complaints against speakeasies, despatched them to Commissioner Whalen, called that official's attention to Section 1530 of the Penal Code and the Court of Appeals' decision, told him, in effect, to get busy and dry up New York City. Wrote Prohibitor Campbell: "If the police make raids and the several magistrates and district attorneys conscientiously do their duty, the speakeasies in New York will rapidly fade away...
Laws. To draft a uniform aviation code to be adopted by all States, government representatives, legislators, lawyers and flyers met at Mineola, L. I., last week. Their preliminary recommendations included punishments for flying while drunk, reckless stunting, flying so low as to endanger persons on the ground, making too much noise with the motor, landing on and damaging private property. During the past year state legislatures entertained 250 heterogeneous bills on aviation. Of these 106 were enacted...