Word: coding
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Arguing that his newest enthusiasm has good chance for success in the U. S., Dr. Potter cited Czechoslovakia's new penal code which provides that a person who "kills on request" receives a five-to-ten-year prison sentence, and he who "kills in sympathy" is liable to three months to five years...
...fair practice code, o-t-c dealers now are obliged to give customers all pertinent information on any deal. But it is manifestly impossible for SEC to keep tabs on all firms to see that this is done. Nearest approach, decided Bill Douglas, was to foster the already substantial trend for o-t-c dealers to band together into associations on a geographical basis. The associations would be expected to police themselves, but if they failed, SEC would have the same disciplinary powers over them that it now has over the exchanges-i.e., to suspend any offending dealer...
Although he was the first overage Supreme Court Justice to retire under last year's amendment to the judicial code, 78-year-old Willis Van Devanter deeply resented Franklin Roosevelt's implication that judicial gaffers were responsible for slowing up Federal court procedure. Last week, recalled to help clear the docket of the U. S. District Court for southern New York, Gaffer Van Devanter took the opportunity to put on a burst of speed that left habitues of the lower courts agape...
...only warrior who emerged from the smoke of the Great Supreme Court Battle of 1937 in better shape than before was spry old Associate Justice Willis Van Devanter, 78. For the judicial code was amended to allow Justices of the Supreme Court, instead of resigning, to retire with full pay ($20,000 a year) guaranteed for life. Justice Van Devanter, who for two years had wanted to retire, seized the opportunity...
...went on to Harvard Law School, practiced in Butler, Pa. until 1923 when he began his coal career as president & general manager of Erie Coal Mining Co. A member of Governor Pinchot's Pennsylvania Coal Commission in 1931, he had a hand in drafting the NRA coal code, went to Washington under the first Guffey Act as a National Coal Commissioner. A Guffey man, he is extremely dictatorial, rules the commission, whose majority supports him, with an iron hand. Whenever this backing has wavered (and it has done so frequently over patronage, office furniture and Senatorial meddling...