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...took over in his shop in 1929, denied that the free press was in peril but conceded that newspapers "love to trifle with the idea." Recalling a time when corruption of the press was common, and looking forward to a day when all newspapers would live up to the code of ethics observed by the best, Mr. Michelson mused: "But even in that better day, if it ever arrives, I darkly suspect that whenever the occasion offers, the press will rise in a body to shadowbox with a nonexistent peril and write about the freedom of the press...
...Farmingdale, L. I., charged with shipping information on U. S. Army planes to Germany; Guenther Rumrich; a U. S. Army private named Erich Glaser; red-headed Johanna Hofmann, a hairdresser on the German liner Europa and messenger of the ring, charged with transmitting to their employers the secret code used by Army planes in communicating with their stations. Since the U. S., unlike Germany, does not punish espionage by death in peacetime, stiffest sentence the spies faced on any count was 20 years imprisonment...
...conforming to the act. The House planned to empower the Labor Department to go into the States and see to it that goods for interstate commerce were legally produced. The House won, and the compromise bill's administrative provisions strongly reminded businessmen of NRA's myriad code authorities. Chief provisions of the bill...
...only can either of these devices be used to receive dispatches from long distances quickly convertible into type; their inventors claim that, used to set up local copy within an office, the machines are far more efficient than manual operation of linotypes. Stories are accumulated either on the Semagraph code copy or on the Teletypesetter tape. These stories are then fed to the linotypes which turn out type faster and more steadily than a man can produce it. In the offices of the Newburgh, N. Y. Newburgh News, Teletype-setters have been in use to obtain greater volume of production...
With one exception-his membership on the Committee for the Defense of Leon Trotsky-Author Adamic has stuck to his wary code. As a "New American" this wariness has undoubtedly simplified his life. As a writer, it is sometimes a handicap. He is most interesting when he writes about experiences where he got involved. He writes better, for example, about a girl hitchhiker he picked up than about John L. Lewis; better about Manhattan radical-intellectuals as personalities than about their role as intellectual counter-parts of the McNamara dynamiters; better about Slovenian peasants than about...