Word: coded
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Congressional courtesy" is a code under which an insult can only be hurled if it is politely wrapped and properly addressed. Last week the House of Representatives found it hard to stay within the code. Rumple-haired Al Engel of Michigan sputtered: "The rules prevent me from saying what I would like to say with regard to the delays in the other body...
...found its justification in Section 1,304 of the Criminal Code, which makes unlawful the broadcast of "any lottery, gift enterprise or similar scheme." But what, precisely, was a lottery? To FCC it was any program on which a prize "of money or a thing of value is awarded to any person whose selection is dependent in whole or in part upon lot or chance." The FCC ruling was aimed directly at the flourishing telephone giveaways (where names are found by chance in phone books), but it would eliminate most others as well...
Less spectacularly, but just as efficiently, FBI agents recommended security precautions for thousands of U.S. factories, seized quantities of guns, charts and code books, rounded up more than 16,000 enemy aliens. So successful was the home-front campaign against saboteurs that not one case of enemy-directed sabotage was discovered throughout the war; this time there were no Black Tom explosions. Ranting Douglas Chandler, the "Paul Revere" of Radio Berlin, tried and convicted of treason, bitterly complained that his confession had been extracted by an FBI agent with "malign, hypnotic power...
...code of the Free State of Maryland requires that a public official taking the oath of office "declare orally his belief in the Christian religion, or, if he professes to be a Jew, his belief in a future state of rewards and punishments...
...took the full oath, including the clause on religion, he appealed to the Prince Georges County circuit court to order the council to seat him. Then he set about preparing his case for a hearing late this month. The court will be asked to decide whether the Maryland code is depriving Stanford of his constitutional rights under Amendment 14, Section 1, of the U.S. Constitution, which protects basic civil rights of U.S. citizens from abridgment by any state...