Word: codee
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...fact that the present-day Tammany has advocated election reforms, fought for woman suffrage, enacted the most progressive social-service and public-welfare laws in the world, and that these laws and the Tammany-made industrial code for the protection of wage-earners of both sexes have been copied by most of the States of the Union and by foreign governments is never stressed by the leather-lunged hirelings of so-called 'reform movements' that sprout, attain rank, growth, and wither, all within a few years...
...five years last year. Last week the new law operated for the first time, when a firing squad of Fascist Legionnaires shot down one Michele della Maggiore, a Communist convicted of murdering two Fascisti. This was the first execution of an Italian in peace time, since the penal code abolished the death penalty 40 years...
Members of Parliament, who had adjourned and rushed over to watch the rescue work, talked a great deal and loudly about enacting a new code of building laws...
Honor in the Corps is a personal matter that falls on every member. The word of a cadet is unquestioned, and it must be perfect surely. It is a small thing to report oneself for violations of the Honor Code, for any man may unintentionally fail to accomplish some intention, or overstep his bounds. True the punishment is swift and sure. This is the most cold-blooded place for discipline that the Lord created. But, once over the offence is completely forgotten; wiped...
Rules outlawing jaywalking are odious because they clog the machinery of nature by meddling with the struggle for existence. Hereunto the human race has advanced in wheel-dodging by leaps and bounds. It seems before the new traffic code was adopted, that within another generation the citizen would as deftly sidestep an automobile as he now does a bill collector. But if the race is to be protected, presumably, by such laws, it no one is to be allowed to test his resourcefulness in the face of formidable mechanical foes, if, in a word, jaywalking is to become a lost...