Word: coding
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...almost overnight he became a national disgrace. He had always been a voracious Casanova; for his wife's one sin he had committed scores. Now he calmly restored her to his household. "I am not aware of any statute or code of morals," he wrote in an icy "open letter" to the howling public, "which makes it infamous to forgive a woman." Few knew that, when alone, Daniel and Teresa had nothing to do with each other. But everyone agreed that "The Washington Tragedy" had ended the brilliant Congressman's career...
...First, according to the U.S. conception, a war-crime code must be formulated. The British feared that Nazi criminals could not be properly tried under existing codes, wanted to punish them by a political fiat (as Napoleon was handled). Jackson and his aides believed that a proper code could be drafted from present international laws, and that in the long run a firm but fair trial procedure would be more effective...
From the British Ministry of Agriculture last week came news of an insecticide which may be as good as famed DDT, and perhaps better. Known in wartime code as "666," it is a simple chemical: hexa-chloro-benzene. In tests on parasitic mites and ticks (Acorida) it proved much more effective than DDT. On mangy rats infested with itch mites it worked a complete cure and, unlike DDT, proved entirely harmless to the animals. It may be the answer to scabies in animals and man, and to many tick-borne diseases...
...taking the view that this was an issue between itself and the press, rather than between itself and the public. On this narrow ground and in a self-righteous mood, the Army last week disaccredited four correspondents who had visited Berlin without permission, and also issued a new censorship code. The new code not only disallowed all stories about such things as battle tactics and troop movements which might give information to the Japanese. But it also forbade "unauthenticated, inaccurate or false reports, misleading statements and rumors" (thereby setting the Army up as sole judge of the truth) and "reports...
These provisions had been in the earlier code and in general had not been abused by the Army. But their repromulgation after V-E day raised important questions. Did the Army recognize that the war in Europe had ended? At what point does brass-hattism end and a truly free press begin? So long as all U.S. newsmen in Europe are obliged to wear Army uniforms, carry Army credentials, depend on Army transportation and send their dispatches by Army courtesy-to do business, in fact, only as "guests" of the Army-the U.S. public could not expect...