Word: coding
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Secret British information intended for Washington is usually handed to the U. S. Embassy in London for transmission in code. When various items began to turn up in Berlin last spring, often to be hurled tauntingly back at Great Britain by renegade Broadcaster William Joyce (Lord Haw-Haw), Scotland Yard agents suspected a leak and tapped the Embassy telephone wires. Within a short time they had heard enough. They arrested Tyler G. Kent, a weak-chinned, 29-year-old American code clerk, who went to London from the U. S. Moscow Embassy at the beginning...
Joseph P. Kennedy, U.S. Ambassador to England, attacked Louis Lyons, a Nieman Fellow at Harvard in 1938-39, as having committed "the first serious violation of the newspaper code of an off-the-record interview that I have ever experienced...
...Major Charles A. DuBois, U.S.A. retired, New York secretary of the Sons of the American Revolution, shrilled that only soldiers and sailors in uniform were permitted to use the military salute. Colonel James A. Moss, U.S.A. retired, president of the United States Flag Association, declared that under the flag code, as modified by the Second National Flag Conference in 1924, the old straight-arm salute was mandatory for school children. Meanwhile New York Post cartoonist Stan MacGovern pointed out other uses of the gesture...
...world loves a winner, but not one who violates not only the football rules but the gridiron's code of fair play as well...
...League requirements would have to be modeled after the much neglected Tri-Presidents' agreement, and here for the last time Harvard could write her own ticket-thereafter, she would be one of a group of equals. The strict code would find willing acceptance among enthusiastic colleges; even Pennsylvania and Cornell might agree to do an about face and become suitable Ivy bedfellows...