Word: coded
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Pendergast was a crook; they both attended the Visitation Roman Catholic Church.) The machine politicians of the precincts and the city-hall corridors had ethical standards which were, in all the everyday affairs of life, as high as those of their communities. In politics, however, they had a special code: it was not wrong to take personal advantage of a political position. It was terribly wrong to fail in helping a political friend -even if the help might involve some damage to the public interest...
...This code is in force again in Washington. It was absent-or nearly absent-for a long time. After the Harding scandals, the Coolidge and Hoover administrations were as clean as Washington had been for generations. The New Dealers were dedicated men: some were dedicated to ideas, some to their magnetic leader and some to the personal acquisition of power. They were not boodlers, grafters or dealers in personal "influence" in the old machine sense. To most of them, a job applicant recommended by a political boss had two strikes on him. They had a contemptuous name for politicians: pols...
...welcoming remarks to first year students yesterday, Dean Griswold of the Law School called on young lawyers to exercise "an even higher code than that held at present among members of the American Bar Association...
Course of Study. In Salisbury, England, Speedster Robert Mount explained to the court: "I had just bought a copy of the highway code, and was preoccupied with reading it as I drove along...
...second article of the self-imposed code that seriously limits the teacher's training of citizens is his reluctance to be explicit on questions of value. Social "science" no longer embraces knowledge of the good...