Word: coding
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Capitol's legislative and judicial laboratories, a decade of scrutiny and debate has been expended upon those cloudy tinctures, the 18th Amendment and the Volstead Act. Since the Volstead Act (1919) the only major refinement of the Federal liquor code was the Jones Act (1929), denning violations as felonies (instead of misdemeanors) and establishing maximum penalties (five years, $10,000). Under President Hoover's urging, further refinements progressed last week in Congress and Supreme Court...
Bill No. 2 amends Section 335 of the U. S. Criminal Code by defining a "petty offense" as one punishable by not more than six months in jail and a $500 fine (misdemeanors are offenses punishable by imprisonment of one year or less). Under this bill U. S. District attorneys may not switch to a felony charge before a Grand Jury after a defendant has been prosecuted as a "petty" offender...
When birth control is viewed from the perspective of Humanity in general the matter assumes a different tinge. The Industrial Revolution and its later ramifications extending well into the Twentieth Century have introduced for all practical purposes a new code of morals Separated from the agricultural system where a literal interpretation of Christian tradition could well have been enforced, Youth is bound either to remain celibate under the pressure of the Factory Age or to draw up its own moral code. It prefers the latter, but is hampered by superstition and Victorian prejudice. The paradox of the educated classes with...
...opening of the Robert Williams stock company at the Plymouth theatre Monday night with the "Criminal Code" was not particularly auspicious. The play itself was good enough and the mechanics of the production were also thoroughly adequate. The acting, however, was distinctly inferior. There were none of the subtleties or refinements that distinguish the artistic from the dull and obvious. And when it comes to being obvious this particular company is even ostentatious...
...with means of transportation as China; a fact amply proved by the failure of any of the generals who have made the bid to establish a secure government during the decades just passed. So the progress of the Revolution has really been the story of a search for a code of political ideals that would win the moral support of the people...