Word: coding
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Under the Code Napoleon it is still forbidden, except in a few cases, to take legal steps to find out who is the father of an illegitimate French child...
Napoleon I decreed the Code which today is still the basis of French law, and the Emperor made no bones about saddling French women with various legal disabilities of which many a virile soldier would approve.* Last week several of these shackles were struck off by a bill which originated in the Senate, was passed into law by the Chamber. It did not give French women the vote, did cancel at one stroke the network of laws under which a French wife has been almost as much under her husband's authority as though she were a minor child...
Daughter of a Masseuse! The generals invaded the august presence of the Führer on the plea that the most sacred traditions of the Army and the celebrated Potsdam Code of officers' conduct had been flagrantly violated by the marriage of War Minister Field Marshal von Blomberg (TIME, Jan. 24). These extremely private nuptials occurred in a Berlin marriage clerk's office and the War Minister's witnesses were No. 1 Nazi Hitler, No. 2 Nazi Göring. Their presence was sufficient authority, so Blomberg appeared to have thought, for the match. But the generals...
...almost openly aspired to succeed Blomberg both as War Minister and as Field Marshal, was fobbed off last week by simply making him a Field Marshal, today the only one in Germany on active service. So far as "impossible" wives are concerned, Göring tied the Potsdam Code into pretzel shape and swallowed it when he married an actress with what is considered in Germany to be a Jewish name (Sonnemann), although she claims to be no Jewess. The Army swallowed her and it would have swallowed Blomberg's wife if she last week had really been...
...editors of the "Oldest College Daily,"' and the editors of every other college publication, our own included, should ask themselves if this code still obtains, if American college journalism still serves a useful function; and still warrants its perpetuation...