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Time required for the Mémophone to dial a number is 71/2 seconds, as against an average of 15 seconds for hand dialing. To circumvent snoopers, names can be entered on the table in code letters or figures. Another advantage is that, by locating the police and fire calls at the top and bottom of the indicator's range, these numbers can be called in total darkness...
...gentleman of 45, he is one of that populous capital group who appear to know everything about everybody but tell nothing about themselves. He has been variously a newshawk, an ambulance driver for the A.E.F. in France, an adviser to the coal interests when they drew up their NRA code...
Although the U. S. Constitution guarantees freedom of the press against statutory attack, there is only one Federal law which guarantees it against attack by individuals. This is Title 18, Section 51 of the U. S. Code, directed against persons who "conspire to injure, oppress, threaten or intimidate any citizen in the free exercise or enjoyment of any right or privilege secured to him by the Constitution. . . ." Passed in 1870 as a weapon against the KuKluxKlan, Section 51 has since been used occasionally in cases involving intimidation of witnesses or voters, such as last year's Kansas City vote...
Caps and gowns (which became academic garb when they were prescribed for medieval scholars to cover their rags, are still worn daily at such places as Oxford and Fordham University) came into fashion at U. S. commencements soon after the Civil War, Mr. Sargent reported. Today an elaborate code, to which 95 schools and colleges adhere, governs the gowns' sizes, colors, materials. Black is for liberal arts graduates, white or grey for high school, blue for normal school, pink for music, lemon for library science, silver-grey for oratory, maize for agriculture. Harvard has its own code, uses varicolored...
Died. Jacob Maged, 54, Jersey City tailor who in 1934 was jailed for three days because he charged 35? instead of 40? to press a suit of clothes, thus violating an NRA code; of cancer; in Jersey City...