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...Swiss-type Civil Code is supplemented by a new German-type Commercial Code; and a Penal Code based on that of Italy has been promulgated. The immense and revolutionary project of scrapping outworn Turkish law (based on the Koran) and substituting Western statutes thus stands today, accomplished...
...York Society for the Suppression of Vice, represented that he had received complaints against the Graphic's front pages from people with children who could not help seeing newsstands. The Tombs Court issued a summons charging Publisher Macfadden and some underlings with violation of that clause of the penal code prohibiting literature "principally made up of criminal news, police reports, or pictures or stories of deeds of bloodshed, lust or crime...
...Mussolini calls his office. There, upright at his massive desk, he transfixed newsgatherers last week with a calm smoldering glance, answered their questions about the new Proscription Law (TIME, Nov. 15). Was it not, hinted the representatives of the press, a little persecutory to deport non-Fascist offenders to "penal islands" in the Mediterranean and Adriatic for "political and social crimes...
...cattle ranch all right but to say he is a prison warden at Salmon, Idaho, is rather amusing because it is a little town far into the mountains and the only penal institution of which it might boast is a little two-by-four jail. Salmon is a county seat...
After a hubbub and by a vote of 53 to 42, the convention indorsed the proposed amendment to the Penal Code which would permit physicians to give contraceptive prescriptions to any married woman. Fervent advocates of the amendment hailed birth control as a means of preventing war, checking crime and disease...