American Codes

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“Alex Sebastian: Mother, mother.
Mrs. Sebastian: Why are you up so early?
Alex: I need your help.
Mrs. Sebastian: Something is wrong?
Alex: A great deal.... I am married to an American agent.”
—Ben Hecht (1893–1964)

“... until both employers’ and workers’ groups assume responsibility for chastising their own recalcitrant children, they can vainly bay the moon about “ignorant” and “unfair” public criticism. Moreover, their failure to impose voluntarily upon their own groups codes of decency and honor will result in more and more necessity for government control.”
—Mary Barnett Gilson (1877–?)