Word: coding
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...section of the indictment is based upon Section 6, Chapter 18 of the United States code, making seditious conspiracy a felony. It was written in 1861 for the purpose of suppressing the rebellion of the South. The other part is based on the recently passed Smith Act which makes it illegal to express an opinion concerning the propriety of overthrowing the United States Government...
...press that ensued, Chancellor Bowman first engineered the dissolution of the Alumni Athletic Council, put Pitt football under faculty control. Then, three years ago, after the freshman football team went on strike be cause they were asked to work for their pay (then $48 a month), he introduced the Code Bowman. Stricter than most college codes - even those of the Big Ten and the Big Three - the Code Bowman stipulates that no coach may approach a high-school athlete before his entrance to Pitt, that athletes may receive no scholarship except those awarded for scholastic attainments and available to nonathletes...
...Coach Sutherland resigned,* snorting that the Code Bowman was "athletic evangelism gone wild." Pitt football, coached by cheery Charley Bowser, went into a decline...
NEVER COME BACK-John Nair-Little, Brown ($2.50). After throttling his leman, a London hack writer discovers she possessed the secret code of a traitorous political organization. His immoral cunning helps him quench the national danger and save his own skin after more murders, torture, Buchanesque chases and all-round wickedness. A thoroughly unprincipled, exciting, ably written tale...
...CASE OF THE EMPTY TIN-Erie Stanley Gardner-Morrow ($2). A code scratched on a tin can in the dusty corner of a California cellar gives Perry Mason his first clue in a case of double murder. Departs in many ways from the familiar Mason formula-and is much the better...