Word: coding
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...whole Soviet Union, smart Comrade Andrei Januari Yishinsky, who recently obtained a sentence condemning to death the brutal Governor of Wrangel Island (TIME, June 1). Last week the Chief Prosecutor declared in Moscow that the new Constitution will seek to correct "the basic defect of the criminal code...
Even a few weeks ago it would have been a shooting offense for any Russian to say openly that his country's Communist criminal code had basic defects. These are, declared Comrade Vishinsky, the present code's "unwieldiness, its lack of clarity and its insufficiency of attention to defense of the rights and interests of individual working people...
...they would name a committee on reunion. But the 1,500 delegates adjourned this week without doing anything about the matter. Other work not done : The convention shelved a Social Action report whose economic implications scared many a conservative Baptist. Also put over for revision was a 15-point "Code of Professional Ethics" for Baptist ministers which contained the following observations: "It is unethical to accept the pastorate of a church and then by word or act seek to deflect that church from its cooperating affiliations. . . . It is considered unethical for one minister to make professional calls on members...
...Guffey Act was to revive the NRA Coal Code. To do so it: 1) imposed a 15% tax on coal production but granted a rebate of all but one-tenth of the tax to producers who abided by the coal code; 2) directed that the code should stipulate minimum wages and hours of labor in the mines; 3) empowered the code to fix minimum and, in some cases, maximum prices for coal...
...recording or reads Braille, the blind person must confine himself to those books which have been selected for him. Last week at Northwestern University a young graduate student in psychology named Emil Ranseen demonstrated an invention by which a sightless reader patient enough to learn a touch code may read any book he chooses. After it is adjusted for proper spacing, a scanner supported on tiny rollers moves back & forth across the printed page examining one letter after another in rapid succession. The light passes through a lens, thence to a slotted, motor-driven disk which analyzes the shape...