Word: coding
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Newspapers had been playing blindman's buff with the Roosevelt-Churchill Casablanca conference story ever since Jan. 9, when all editors were advised by Censor Byron Price: "The President is taking another trip. . . . Attention is directed forcefully to the Code provision restricting any information regarding [his] movements. . . ." By Jan. 25, when the printable news reached their desks, with another 32 hours before it could be officially released (at 10 p.m. E.W.T., the 26th), they had fidgets. Meanwhile they hinted to the hilt...
...girl's voice: "If you use Morse Code you get "MIGEE" and that's Fibber McGee, and that mean's he's lying and is in trouble." She was absolutely convinced, too. A Radcliffe girl said the WAVES had helped. No beer. Then a mother phoned, said her daughter "Sixteen years old and looks like Veronica Lake"--had got "Am in a mess" by crossing out words, the most common method among unfortunates...
...clock last night the students, faculties, and service men of the University had not yet solved the code message contained in Sunday's Terry and the Pirates. Look: Milt Caniff can do it, the General can do it, and I bet you two to one Flash Gordon could do it with one had tied behind his rocket ship. Well...
...consensus of opinion of the staff of cryptographers, naval, military, amateur, and journalistic, who assembled in the CRIMSON news room last night and for three hours and 48 minutes belabored their brows and their pencils in a vain if dramatic attempt to solve the riddle of the code message in "Terry and the Pirates...
...buckets of blood from the veins of the editor of Mississippi's greatest newspaper will quench your thirst for human gore . . . you are cordially invited to come on and spill it if you can. Being the party threatened, the editor, under the traditional rules of the code duello, is entitled to choice of weapons, jpbj may arm himself with cow dung and shingles at the respectful distance of 40 paces, standing with his face to the wind. . . ." The "jpbj" was, as all Mississippians knew, Judge Paul B. Johnson (later Governor), Sullens' bitterest political foe. In May 1940 Johnson...