Word: coding
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...when all Federal enactments were dovetailed together in the Revised Statutes of the United States, the foregoing and many another like them were high class modern laws. In 1926 all general and permanent laws of the U. S. were codified in one big fat volume. The Code is not the law itself but simply a presumption of what the law is. The statutes cited above were considered too out-of-date to get into the Code, despite the fact that they were still rooted in the Revised Statutes...
...effect on the uninformed is to give the impression that marriage between a white and a Negro is legal in California. You are referred to Sec. 60. Civil Code of California: "All marriages of white persons with Negroes. Mongolians, or Mulattoes, are illegal and void...
...True, Section 63 of the same code provides, "All marriages contracted without this State, which would be valid by the laws of the country in which the same were contracted, are valid in this State." This, however, is a principle of law which has been in effect in most English-speaking countries for centuries and is not peculiar to California. You will note that the first section referred to makes the marriages mentioned "illegal and void.'' They are thus classed with incestuous and bigamous marriages and are distinct from those marriages which are merely voidable and which...
...implications of such a condition lie far deeper than the Herald would suggest. Looking to their elders for examples of an acceptable code of ethics, the offending undergraduate officials find on one side shameless dishonesty and on the other helpless complacency. Their natural reaction is to regard graft as a legitimate profit, the assumed right of officialdom. The immediate consequence of such an attitude firmly established in the minds of these college men becomes tragically obvious when one considers that they are destined to fill responsible positions in the world. There is probably need for some such disciplinary action...
...wife and his son, Horace Jr., 22, clasped hands on the rear seat of their automobile in a tightly closed garage until asphyxiated by carbon monoxide from the exhaust. For 32 years the Colemans had been Quaker missionaries in Japan. They had steeped themselves in Japanese Bushido, the ethical code of the samurai which prescribes harakiri for those facing shame. Learning that Clara B. McGill, a destitute young girl whom the Colemans had sheltered, had made a complaint that Horace Coleman Jr. had betrayed her, they left a note: "This way accords with our peculiar ideas in cases where conditions...