Word: coding
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...small and grimy paddle-wheel steamer on the Congo. Trader Chinn's unlovely craft, which he claimed belongs to UNATRA, Union Nationale des Transports, a Belgian registered stock company, was halted by Belgian agents on its way down to Leopoldville. The Belgian Government had promulgated a new code of Congo regulations. The agents tried to apply them. But Trader Chinn had a sound practical sense of international law. He sued for damages...
Guild. The Newspaper Guild started last August in Manhattan. With the Newspaper Code about to be formulated, Scripps-Howard Columnist Heywood
...another it was here to stay. General Johnson, who made no thundering defense before the assembled Chambermen, was not so sanguine. At a dinner of trade association executives he announced plans for a nation-wide drive within a month or two to whip up flagging interest in the new "code eagle." "Due to a lapse of public enthusiasm," said the General, a drive was imperative. "If you can't get public support, you just can't make the thing go." After a short speech, he announced that he was ready for any questions on NRA that the delegates...
...reform administration in New York permits the portrayal of an honest District Attorney. Possibly this is too rapid an advance, for the story concerns the life of two boys, close friends ever since they were rescued from a shipwreck. Both are essentially fine persons. But while Jim's code allows him honestly to mount the ladder of democracy to the position of District Attorney, Blackie finds that his fits best into the under-world. They remain friends, however, and not even the delicate time when Miss Loy changes her affections destroys their relationship. It is when Jim is running...
...favorite beasts is that he has run on every conceivable ticket for membership in the House of Representatives and that he has never won. One of his latest achievements is the counsel which he has procured for the newsboys in their protest to the NRA code...