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...future involve their country in wars and assasinations. The leadership of newspapers has proved at times more potent than that of politicians themselves; at other times, as in the past election, completely futile. Always, however, it has vast potentialities, particularly for developing a new profession with a sound code of ethics, for breeding a new race of statesmen with vision...
What lawyers hear in their law offices, doctors in their consulting rooms, priests in their confessionals, they need not disclose in courts of law. Newshawks try to preserve a similar code, and sometimes go to jail for doing so, for only in four States-Maryland, New Jersey, Alabama, California-does the law specifically allow newshawks the right of concealing their news sources. Three weeks ago when Arkansas voters went to the polls they were asked to vote on a proposal to revise the State's criminal code to give newshawks immunity. The count was slow coming...
...Sugar Institute was founded in 1927 with a stiff "code of ethics" to stamp out various kinds of chiseling then rampant in the sugar refining industry, and incidentally to "promote the consumption of sugar." So profound was the peace that the Institute brought to its harassed industry, so remarkable the immediate rise in the profits of its members, that the Department of Justice grew suspicious that it was a combination in restraint of trade, launched anti-trust proceedings in 1931. The trial lasted six months, the briefs filled 1,500 pages, the testimony 10,000 pages. In 1934 Manhattan...
...That the Southern Conference be urged to adopt a fundamental code to embody the freshman rule, the migratory rule, the professional rule, and a rule providing for the maintenance of the present entrance and scholastic rquirements; or otherwise, that the University of Virginia withdraw from the Southern Conference and adopt such a code...
...year vigil of the silver-haired widow of Harry Houdini to night comes to its final and logical conclusion with this last attempt to pierce the Great Void. . . ." The magician explained that the spirit of Houdini might, if it could, ring the bell, unlock the handcuffs, speak a code message through the trumpet...