Word: coding
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...film is in violation of that provision of the Production Code of the Motion Picture Industry which reads : 'sex hygiene and venereal diseases are not subjects for motion pictures. . . .' " He also enclosed a rousing letter in which Bishop John F. O'Hara described the film as "insulting to Americans, dangerous to health, and definitely a menace to chastity, since it contains not one word of condemnation of the unchastity which is an even greater scourge than the disease it spreads...
...diseases is not only a moral problem, but also a very serious public health problem. As a citizen, concerned with public welfare, I take issue with the Legion's contention that un chastity is a greater scourge than venereal disease. . . . The protest [that the film violates the Production Code] is not valid. The Code does not and was never intended to apply to educational government films. . . . The film has not been withdrawn . . . a method ... to show it will be worked...
...turn from pre-invasion military chores, confer on French politics with General Joseph Pierre Koenig, doughty hero of Bir Hacheim and the De Gaulle Government's military envoy in London. At week's end a hitch occurred. The Committee protested against Britain's diplomatic-code ban, maintained that under pre-invasion restrictions of communications' and travel the conversations "cannot be usefully pursued...
...they slept at all, during the relatively quiet midday period. They munched packaged K-rations, slipped in to them the night before. At night patrols prowled the streets, trying to make contact with enemy forces. Challenging a dark figure in the normal way was suicide. The Americans used a code of whistled recognition signals; the Germans seemed to be using a kind...
Last New Year's Eve the first contingent from the States-a dozen couples, four determined bachelors-arrived in Seward. They had been trained in code, meteorology, radio theory, air navigation. At Seward they boarded a train for Anchorage. They gazed with wonder at glaciers and snow-capped hills. They had fishing rods, guns, accordions, cameras; some of them had children...