Word: coding
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...attained the peak of liberal rationality which he desired it is at least clear that the urban theatre goers have arrived at a state of sophistication which prevents them from regarding illicit love as shocking. Ibsen's fight in "Ghosts" was against convention and the rigid moral code of his time which resolved life into "duty and obligation" and left happiness as a sort of rare unearned increment. The age-old moral and social laws which press upon the young, forcing them to accept destiny instead of fighting it, the incessant pressure of conservative institutions such as home...
...Nazis have promised not to discriminate against Jewish athletes that there would therefore be no discrimination. Are we to take the gilt-aged invitations issued to Gretel Bergman and Helene Mayer as satisfactory evidence of their good faith? Or are we to consider the gross violations of the Olympic Code contained in the cases of Dr. Prenn, the tennis player, Beelig, the boxer and Nathan, the long distance runner, to name but a few who have been denied access to the training facilities of have been driven out of the country...
...haired Elwood Hamilton, a reliable New Dealer.* Predecessor Dawson shortly argued before Successor Hamilton that the New Deal law requiring prison-made goods to be labeled as such was unconstitutional. Not so, decided Judge Hamilton. Next, Lawyer Dawson attacked the Guffey Coal Act, lineal descendant of the NRA coal code which he, as judge, had declared unconstitutional. Sound as a drum, Judge Hamilton last week called a second strike against his predecessor...
...protesting coal companies that it was perfectly legal for Congress to pass the Guffey Act imposing a penalty tax of 13½% on the value of their output unless they would submit to government regulation of wages and coal prices by the equivalent of what NRA called a Code Authority. In doing so he propounded a doctrine which differed not only from that of his predecessor but from that of the Supreme Court in the Schechter (NRA) case: Judge Hamilton: "The bituminous coal industry as now conducted affects interstate commerce and, this being true, the court is without power...
General Badoglio is said to have telegraphed allied Generalissimo Ferdinand Foch, in November 1918, in a code to which he knew the Germans had the key, a bluff proposal for a terrifying offensive on five fronts. Three hours after Foch telegraphed his approval in the same code, the Germans sued for Armistice...