Word: coding
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Poland will soon adopt a new legal code upon which TIME will report, stating whether Communists will continue liable to the Death penalty after its enactment. At present the courts are somewhat lenient and the Death sentencing of Communists at Lemberg was an exception. According to despatches the accused denied that they were Communists, but the Lemberg Court held that their possession of much Communist literature established the presumption that they were Communists. Upon this presumption and its corollary that a Communist is a traitor they were sentenced to Death. Communist deputies are of course protected by their parliamentary immunity...
...Stoehr device, striker bars are so fixed to a piano's keys that when a key is touched a code impression is recorded on a motor-driven music-roll. Thus the most idle vagaries, nuclei for many a major opus, may be preserved. Added feature is a portable keyboard superimposed on the piano keyboard (baby grand or upright) which mechanically and instantaneously transposes music into any desired key. Composing and transposing devices may be used together. A great boon should "Music Writer" be to the cinema industry. Heretofore composition for synchronized cinema has been a labor of weeks. With...
Daily the suave Mexicans who work the "Morelos racket" in the U. S. have tried to soothe irate clients, threatening clients, clients who pushed into their offices and had hysterics. Reason: The Supreme Court of Mexico recently declared null and void the Puente Code or Divorce Law of Morelos which was promulgated in 1927 by Provisional Governor Ambrosia Puente without being approved by the State Legislature...
...hurry-up session last week the present duly-elected State Legislature of Morelos rushed through a bill legalizing all acts of Provisional Governors in Morelos from 1917 to 1930, including of course the Puente Code. According to the original opinion handed down by the Supreme Court of Mexico this action renders Morelos divorces legal in Mexico at least...
...Nicholas, who telegraphed the signal for his return was created "Chief Inspector of the Army and Navy." Said Carol of Nicholas last week: "He is more than a brother! ... He hourly does me splendid service." Nicholas told reporters that during his brother's exile they used an affectionate telegraphic code in which "Mary" stood for Carol. Without translating it Nicholas quoted one code message: "TELL TITKUS KISS FROM SOPHIE...