Word: coding
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...introduction to the entertainment business. Called in as a technical adviser in 1924 for the filming of The Covered Wagon, he so impressed casting directors with his vivid Western personality that he was signed up, eventually starred by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, Columbia, Monogram (Beyond the Sierras, The Square Shooter, Code of the Rangers). For three seasons he was a star name in the Ringling circus. On the side he owns and operates a 10,000-acre cattle ranch on the edge of a Wyoming Indian reservation...
...declared to have obstructed "reforms" which the Dictator wishes to have made in the Soviet Criminal Code. Under one of these reforms "any member of a conspiracy will be criminally responsible for the acts of all, even acts of which this conspirator was completely ignorant...
...profitable places to invest their policyholders' money. But real estate is traditionally such a bad investment for life insurance companies- because when cash is needed quickest is just the time real estate is least convertible-that most States have passed laws against it. The 1906 New York Insurance code forbade insurance companies to own any land or buildings that they did not do business in or that they had not acquired through mortgage foreclosures-and these they had to get rid of again within five years. Most other States followed New York. But between 1921 and 1926 when there...
Last February the New York Legislature modified the insurance code again: Till 1943, by the O'Brien-Piper Bill, insurance companies can once again invest in low-cost housing. But the amount of rent they can charge this time is not specified. Metropolitan apartments will undoubtedly rent for more than $9 a room. Truly low-cost housing, with the price of building materials and building labor as high as it is now, will continue for a while to be built by the Government...
...Gorki's lengthiest book. The story of Russian pre-Revolutionary intellectual life, it was called Bystander, revolved around an apathetic, intelligent provincial lawyer, Clim Samghim, who flirted all his life with the revolutionary movement, drifted with the winds of doctrine without ever finding harbor in a cause, a code of belief, a philosophy. Samghim's story was carried on-in so far as it moved at all-in The Magnet and Other Fires. Last week the fourth and last volume, left unfinished by Gorki at his death in 1936. was published as The Specter, showed Samghim just...