Word: codee
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...first printed code of orthodox Jewish life was published a quarter-century after the Gutenberg Bible (1452). It was Rabbi Jacob 'ben Asher's famed Arba Turim (Code of the Jews). For five centuries it disappeared from the sight of orthodox Jews. Lately it was found in Italy bearing on its Hebraic pages three visas of papal inquisitioners who had examined it for heresies. Last week it was taken to Manhattan and placed in the Jewish Theological Seminary. It was purchased with funds (of concealed volume) donated by Theatrical Producer Abraham Lincoln Erlanger...
...penalty of more than one year's imprisonment is authorized the crime is a felony and the convicted person is deemed "infamous". This arbitrary classification has been severely criticized. Thus the court in United States V GAAG, (237 FED. 728) referred to Section 335 of the United States Criminal Code providing for this distinction as "barbaric". In United States V Wood (224 FED. 278) it is pointed out that a violation of an insignificant administrative regulation of the Internal Revenue Law will brand the most honorable of men as "infamous...
...indictment as a condition precedent to trial. This will of course increase the burden and cost of Federal Prosecution and will result in additional delays and perhaps in large wet cities in lack of prosecution by Grand Juries. Perhaps the solution will be in a change in the Criminal Code distinction between felonies and misdemeanors...
...hosannas that greeted the passing of the anti-convivial Jones Law are slowly fading into groans of despair as the repeal of the "Meanings" clause of the book censorship code daily nears realization. That good old institution whereby the youth of Boston has been preserved from the contaminating influence of modern literature is tottering on the edge of oblivion. The virgin purity of the children that so blithly play about the Frog Pond is now laid open to the nefarious advances of "unfit" literature...
...study of law in books and documents to the examination of individual offenses against society indicates a new outlook in the legal profession. Today the lawbreaker is dealt with under a hard and fast rule which was made to consider the mass and not the individual. With the present code there is little or no room for the services which a psychiatrist, physician, or social worker might render, not in punishing the crime, but in getting at the cause of the un-social conduct in the individual...