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...Globe. Excellent! But-without wishing to prejudge the utility of such a body, the creation of which is surely a step in the right direction, it is significant that membership belongs not to the man, but to the job! ... It is ironic and significant that the author of this code is no longer in a position to enforce its practice and that several who took prominent parts in the proceedings are no longer eligible to meet with this gathering...
...Soviet Chief of Police reached for the code. He read-Article 120- that imprisonment is the punishment for "exploiting the religious prejudices of the masses against the Soviet government and fostering superstition among the masses." Summoning trusty agents of police, he directed them to the village of Pskoff, to search the doings of Priest Troitski, to bring him to justice. At Pskoff the police heard tales. Troitski had an ikon, a painted image of the Blessed Virgin whose tears, copiously shed, performed miracles. One teardrop, applied to a wound, healed it. By virtue of the tears, Lydia Belskaya was cured...
...compress cables and telegrams a considerable code was developed through the years. For himself he selected the cipher word 'Andes,' modestly taking the name of the second highest altitude on the earth's surface. He commonly went by the code name in office conversation. . . . Colonel George B. M. Harvey was 'Sawpit'; James Gordon Bennett came over the cable as 'Gaiter' and William R. Hearst as 'Gush.' For William J. Bryan, two code designations were used: 'Guilder' and 'Maxilla,' the latter possibly a delicate reference to jaw. Pomeroy...
Personal Liberty. "The liberty of the individual is being beaten down by the threatening encroachment upon the Constitution of a code of statutes to control the habits and morals of Americans, and the right of man to govern himself is being defeated...
Former Attorney General Alter of Pennsylvania: Exhorted his colleagues to the speedy preparation and adoption of a "model code" as planned by the Association's Committee on Law Enforcement. Stated that at its last session the Legislature of his State created "nearly a hundred new crimes that did not exist before...