Word: codee
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...crimes defined . . . shall be punished as herein prescribed: First, when committed upon the high seas. . . .-U. S. Criminal Code, Sect...
Every murder perpetrated by poison, lying in wait or any other kind of willful, deliberate, malicious and premeditated killing . . . is murder in the first degree. -U. S. Criminal Code, Sect...
Every person guilty of murder in the first degree shall suffer death.-U. S. Criminal Code, Sect...
Returned to Florida in chains, piratical Alderman was tried under Sections 272, 273, 275 of the U. S. Criminal Code. In the name of the people of the U. S. in January 1928 he was convicted of murder on the high seas, sentenced by U. S. District Judge Henry D. Clayton to "be hanged by the neck until dead-dead-dead." Vainly did Alderman carry his case to the Supreme Court of the U. S., to President Hoover for clemency...
...Office wangled as go-between with conspicuous success. Moscow held out at first for unconditional recognition, but finally, responding through Oslo to London's overtures, agreed to participate in a prerecognition parley with the British. Result: suave Comrade Valerian Dovgalevsky, the Soviet Ambassador at Paris, received a long code cable from his superiors, ordered his trunks packed, his briefcase stuffed, and hurriedly crossed the Channel. An indifferent sailor, M. Dovgalevsky was grateful for the prevailing calm weather...