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...late "Joe" Cotton was noted for his easy informality. Once while he was Acting Secretary a U. S. Ambassador, fretted by a triviality, cabled the Department for instructions. Cotton wrote a message to him: "Laugh it off." When clerks explained that the Department had no code word for ''laugh," Cotton had the message sent anyway in uncoded nakedness...
...March of Time." My radio fan-age began 'way back in 1911- when only the staccato chirp of the code could be transmitted. I remember building my first "coherer" set, using filings from the milled edges of a nickel and a quarter...
...Statute 213 of the Federal Criminal Code forbids mailing lottery information, before or after the prizes are won. But U. S. periodicals are, by Federal indulgence, allowed to break the letter of the law and send through the mails news accounts of lotteries. This year the Irish Sweepstakes were world's largest, outrunning even the famed Calcutta Sweeps on the British Derby. Irish sweepstake tickets were peddled in the U. S. by race track bookies or by salesmen who brought them over from Dublin in books of twelve at $2.50 each, the salesman receiving two tickets free from each book...
...union has been diversely received throughout Europe. According to the communique, serving as the source of information until the text of the agreement is published, the union is to be strictly intact. The tolls existing between Germany and Austria are to be eliminated and a common customs and trade code established. The revenues obtained under the three year plan are to be pooled and divided proportionately...
...B.J.One" was among the outstanding successes of the London theatrical season last year. The title itself is taken from a code signal used by the British Navy during the recent war, meaning "Prepare for battle". The play has been likened to a "Journey's End" on the sea, but its scope is less restrictive, and the plot carries over into the present day in timely fashion. While many all-male-cast plays have tended to show the effect of war on men. "B.J.One" tends rather to show the effect...