Word: coding
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...domestic transport lines, Eastern Air excepted, use radiophone (voice) transmission. E. A. T. planes are equipped with radiophone for short distances, the more penetrating dot-dash radio telegraph for long range. Pan American Airways, whose ground stations are far spaced through tropical latitudes where static is frequently bad, uses code telegraph exclusively. Phone-users may, if reception is poor, whistle their messages in dots & dashes...
...Claudel, who commanded the ist French Colonial Corps (African) in the War; German Dr. Heinrich Schnee, last Governor of German East Africa (1912-19); and Italian Count Aldrovandi-Marescotti, recalled in 1929 from his post as Ambassador to Germany because a copy of Il Duce's most private code had vanished inexplicably from the Berlin Embassy...
...Dasnee is charming, but with the other female actors she finds it hard to keep from laughing at the melodramatic faces she is asked to make by her good friend André Roosevelt. The male actors are quite serious. The story is practically impossible in modern Bali. The Balinese code allows a girl to be as promiscuous before marriage as she likes...
...without feeling it for weeks. So China drifted along last week. Not so Chiang Kaishek. Night after night he was up all night. Airplanes - several piloted by U. S. flyers - roared out to Shanghai, Hankow, Peiping, carrying messages too secret to be telegraphed, even in code. Stubborn Wang remained in hiding in the French concession at Shanghai, refusing to withdraw his resignation or to stick so much as the top of his head out of his hole. All negotiations with Chiang's representatives he left to his small, sleek wife who rushed busily in a limousine from his hiding...
...America, Inc. have such a hard time controlling the lubricity of the cinema that to expect them to control the lubricity of anything else would seem too much. Yet the Hays organization sometimes attempts it. Last year, regulations against salacious cinemadvertising were added to the industry's code. Last week came another incident to heat and bother the upright Presbyterian soul of Tsar Hays. In Motion Picture Magazine appeared an interview with decadent-looking Tallulah Bankhead (daughter of Alabama's onetime Representative William Brockman Bankhead). written by one Gladys Hall. Reported Miss Hall: "I am told that Tallul...