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Word: codee (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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That an undergraduate publication is qualified to speak with authority on the finer points of ethics in journalism is obviously open to doubt. Where, however, the issue is a more flagrant violation of a professional code than the worst advertisements of a medico, there seems no reason why any newspaper should be constrained to silence. The issue at point, while involving a tabloid paper in its local manifestation, is not to be classed with the usual frivolities of those publications; in brief, it concerns the statement, with no indication of doubt or other qualification, that a woman under sentence...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: PROFESSIONAL ETHICS | 1/10/1928 | See Source »

Education, Crime Commission, Labor and Housing Laws-these were other headings in the Smith record to which, without elaboration by him, his friends could point with pride. Within a decade, New York had stepped up her education appropriations from 83 to 290 millions per annum. Her new penal code, drawn by a Smith-suggested crime commission under State Senator Caleb H. Baumes, had become the model for many another state...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Smith to the U. S. | 1/9/1928 | See Source »

...whole extent of the Nicaraguans' unsportsmanlike conduct in the latest shooting match. They have transgressed all bounds, for it is hinted they have "received foreign aid". The grossness of this violation becomes immediately apparent when it is considered that only the United States is permitted by the accepted code to do any aiding in South America. Imagine, for instance, how outrageous it would have been if the American colonists, in revolt against England back in the eighteenth century, had appealed for foreign...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE NASTY NICARAGUANS | 1/3/1928 | See Source »

...Crime Commission of New York State (Caleb H. Baumes, chairman) has lately wrought upon U. S. penal codes the most signal changes of the decade. The Baumes grading of punishments for repeated felonies, topped off by life imprisonment for a fourth conviction regardless of degree, has been the model for tightened laws in many a state. The theory underlying the Baumes code is that crime is disease, that habitual criminals are chronic patients. Governor Alfred Emanuel Smith of New York appeared before the Baumes commission a fortnight ago and elaborated its theory of crime still further. He made suggestions which...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CRIME: Board of Sentences? | 12/26/1927 | See Source »

Methods. There exist mechanical and chemical means of preventing conception. But it is illegal in this country to tell your neighbor about them. Section 211 of the Federal Penal Code forbids that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Birth Control | 11/28/1927 | See Source »

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