Word: coding
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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What lawyers hear in their law offices, doctors in their consulting rooms, priests in their confessionals, they need not disclose in courts of law. Newshawks try to preserve a similar code, and sometimes go to jail for doing so, for only in four States-Maryland, New Jersey, Alabama, California-does the law specifically allow newshawks the right of concealing their news sources. Three weeks ago when Arkansas voters went to the polls they were asked to vote on a proposal to revise the State's criminal code to give newshawks immunity. The count was slow coming...
...That the Southern Conference be urged to adopt a fundamental code to embody the freshman rule, the migratory rule, the professional rule, and a rule providing for the maintenance of the present entrance and scholastic rquirements; or otherwise, that the University of Virginia withdraw from the Southern Conference and adopt such a code...
Harry Houdini (Ehrich Weiss), escape artist extraordinary and implacable foe of spiritualistic fakers, promised his wife that if it were possible for him after death to communicate with her on Earth, he would do so. A code message was agreed on. In New York, a medium named Arthur Ford said that Houdini's spirit had sent him these words: ROSABELLE ANSWER TELL PRAY ANSWER LOOK TELL ANSWER ANSWER TELL. Mrs. Houdini signed a statement that this was in her husband's code, but later seemed un convinced that she had actually heard from the dead magician. Last month...
...year vigil of the silver-haired widow of Harry Houdini to night comes to its final and logical conclusion with this last attempt to pierce the Great Void. . . ." The magician explained that the spirit of Houdini might, if it could, ring the bell, unlock the handcuffs, speak a code message through the trumpet...
...occasional messages were keyed so that Western Union could send them by merely dispatching the code number of the message with the addressee's name, the sender's signature. But Mr. Willever had not yet applied a special rate to the pre-fabricated telegram. It remained for the second summer of the Chicago World's Fair in 1934 to provide that wrinkle. To the throng of sightseers Mr. Willever offered form telegrams of greeting to be delivered for 25? anywhere in the U. S. So successful was this stunt that this year all Western Union "fixed texts...