Word: coding
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...York's sanitary code requires that all bodies be buried within four days after death. To Mayor LaGuardia, the Greenwood Cemetery crisis had ceased to be a labor dispute and become a problem in public health. So it was-not because of a strike in one cemetery but because it posed the possibility of some great future strike that might spread pestilence as did exposed, decaying bodies in the Middle Ages-that the Mayor directed his labor adviser, Nathan Frankel, to notify the cemetery management and the strikers that unless they promptly settled the dispute, he would act. Then...
...president of the Bookkeepers, Stenographers & Accountants Union, has been active in leading U. S. organizations working for Leftist Spain. Instead of being permitted to "observe conditions" in Valencia, Socialist Baron found himself abruptly clapped into jail, managed to smuggle out news of his plight by means of a prearranged code. Last week international Socialist pressure secured Observer Baron's release and he arrived in Paris after traveling the length of Leftist Spain, keeping his eyes & ears open. Earlier in the year Socialist Baron had spent four months traveling freely all over Leftist Spain, thus last week had ample background...
Being worth $700,000 and better known to the ends of the earth than any initialed railroad, broadcasting station or New Deal agency, the Dionne Quintuplets last week assumed Y-A-C-E-M as their code name. Psychology Professor William Emet Blatz of the University of Toronto tagged them thus, cryptically indicating that intellectually Yvonne is superior to all her sisters, Marie inferior, with Annette, Cecile and Emilie ranging between...
...Dundalk, Irish Free State, Julia Clark of Glasgow, Scotland, was sentenced to one month in jail and deportation, for violating Section 18 of the 1935 criminal code (de Valera's vice law) which forbids "any act ... offending modesty or causing scandal or injuring the morals of the community." Her offense: Kissing her sweetheart in public...
...Most sensational probe was that in Texas in 1926, during Governor "Ma'' Ferguson's term, when a school superintendent testified an American Book Co. salesman had asked him how he would like to have his $3,600 salary doubled. During the NRA textbook code hearings, however, a publisher estimated $500,000 was spent by the industry in an unspecified period for dinners for book buyers. Most agents and educators still see nothing wrong in an agent reporting openings for better jobs to teachers and officials to whom he hopes to sell books...