Word: codee
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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When the National Commission was founded there were only three organized state or city crime commissions in the U. S. Twenty-six such bodies sent delegates to the gathering last week. Largely through the efforts of the National Commission 42 states made 587 criminal code amendments. Some of these amendments the commission found foolish?such as Missouri's making dog-stealing grand larceny* and Idaho's law against buying or selling chickens after dark with out notifying a sheriff. But nine-tenths of the changes were declared "seriously and carefully considered"?anti-pistol laws in Michigan, New Jersey, Rhode...
...Baumes Code, effective last year in New York, copied widely since, imposes life imprisonment upon any thrice-convicted person who is convicted a fourth time, no matter how trivial the fourth offender may seem. Lately, under Michigan's new Baumes Law, a three-time convict was sentenced for _ life when caught with one bottle of bootleg...
...said to have abandoned the thoughts of the social philosophers for a complete and blind surrender to faith. Whether the Americans are one step ahead or behind remains where all decisions of this kind have remained--with the individual. At least Mr. Croy avoids dogmatism in his own code, a novelty in a day when inventors and manufacturers are become the most downright of theologians...
International Business Machines Corp. showed an electric tabulating and accounting machine that automatically compiled data from "tabulating" cards. These cards bear holes punched according to an office code to represent various factors necessary for bookkeeping. The holes regulate the action of counters on the machine. Governments use this system (called the Hollerith) in census work...
Like many another pioneer, the end of his usefulness came with the complete acceptance of his once radical innovations. Others explored further the implications of his ethical code. The Bergers and Capones of Cicero went on to machine gunnery, gas, bombs and airplanes. In the mad race for the new "Little Augie" stuck to his guns. And so he died when bullets sought and found him among the pushcarts of the East Side, died under the rules of self-preservation that he had made, died a martyr to his own conservatism...