Word: codee
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Radio communication between the expedition and the U. S. continued successul, both in code and voice. Signals from the Great Lakes Naval Training Station (Lake Bluffs, Ill.) were received most clearly by Operator Reinartz of the Bowdoin. Beside reports to the U. S. Navy Department and the National Geographic Society from Operator Reinartz of the Bowdoin, Chicago operators distinctly heard Song of the Snow Bunting, Song of the Raven, and Song of the Fox rendered by Singers Imyou-Getook, Kangak, Nu-Ka-pingwa and Ah-Kom-oing...
These people are ignorant of the law. It is true that the Romans observed the law that their language so nobly expresses ; true that the Code Napoleon is strict in its provisions protecting the dead from defamation; true that in Italy a man can protect in court the good name of his dead. But anywhere in the U. S. except in the State of Louisiana, anywhere in the British Empire except in the Province of Quebec, a dead man can be defamed without hindrance...
Quebec, once a French province, preserves the statute that was afterward incorporated in the Code Napoleon. Louisiana, a state which, as everyone knows, was part of the great stretch of territory west of the Mississippi sold by Napoleon to President Jefferson in 1803, retains the very provision of the Code...
MacMillan's radio communication with the U. S. continued uninterrupted, the short-wave (40-metre) set being used. In addition to code reports, by MacMillan and Flight-Commander Richard E. Byrd, to the National Geographic Society and the Navy Department, U. S. operators even picked up, indistinctly, a musical program by the Peary's rough and ready orchestra, a speech by MacMillan, weird chants that the Bowdoin's operator explained were Eskimos singing...
...possibly this code of ethics may be modified, if one may judge by the recent action of the Texas State Medical Association. True, the doctors of the great respectable group are never likely to adventure into the public prints each individually boasting of his marvelous powers and miraculous cures. But the Texas State Medical Association created a committee to devise dignified and effective means for advertising for the great body of allopathic physicians. This committee passed resolutions urging county Medical Associations 1) to publish advertisements in local papers of educational nature advising people how to get proper treatment for diseases...