Word: coding
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...business national boundaries are losing emphasis, the interests of the world as a whole being considered. This is particularly true, in Europe where the "cartel" system is demolishing political barriers as rapidly as ephemeral ministries build them up. Whether the new regime can be supported by an international code of justice, artificial in origin and lacking background, is shortly to be put to test. if it can be proved that the new method of cooperation, as opposed to internationally competitive industry, has the will of the peoples of Europe behind it, countries based on the latter principle must head...
...rung up for each petition. Clang! it went again as another $10 was deposited with the answer to each uncontested action. In the line of lawyers were the U. S. District Attorney. Nevada's Attorney General, the local District Attorney and the Mayor of Reno, for under the Nevada code they are all free to practice civil law. Newshawks scramble'd fran- tically to scribble down the names of famed divorce seekers. Divorce petitions filed the first day of the new law totaled...
...sterling men of [that] first generation were impelled by the strong religious and stern Puritanical code of their time which demanded that each should give a tithe of his income to benevolent purposes and a greater or less quota of his time to the public interest. Philanthropic and patriotic service was instilled weekly in every pulpit, for practically everyone attended church...
...late "Joe" Cotton was noted for his easy informality. Once while he was Acting Secretary a U. S. Ambassador, fretted by a triviality, cabled the Department for instructions. Cotton wrote a message to him: "Laugh it off." When clerks explained that the Department had no code word for ''laugh," Cotton had the message sent anyway in uncoded nakedness...
...Statute 213 of the Federal Criminal Code forbids mailing lottery information, before or after the prizes are won. But U. S. periodicals are, by Federal indulgence, allowed to break the letter of the law and send through the mails news accounts of lotteries. This year the Irish Sweepstakes were world's largest, outrunning even the famed Calcutta Sweeps on the British Derby. Irish sweepstake tickets were peddled in the U. S. by race track bookies or by salesmen who brought them over from Dublin in books of twelve at $2.50 each, the salesman receiving two tickets free from each book...