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...price. If the price of Steel falls to 97, and he orders the stock sold, the bucketing broker, who has secretly sold it already at about 100, makes about $300, while if the. price of Steel falls to 95, the broker pretends to "sell the stock out," to avoid loss himself; actually he has already sold it, and thus simply pockets the customer's $500. Most people who speculate, and particularly amateurs, are always buyers. Hence the bucketshops can flourish only when the stock market is declining. During the long decline in the stock market from November...
...hand, it is equally undeniable that Beerbohm intended no slight. He says in a letter to the Secretary of the Galleries : ". . . if the public is likely to read any shadow of seriousness into them, and accordingly regard them as unkind or disloyal, I think it will be well to avoid this misunderstanding by removing them...
...Franco-Belgian discord is only just making itself felt. Belgium wishes to present a separate note to the Germans after receipt of the second Cuno offer. Her reply will be based upon Anglo-Italian support, which is precisely what France desires to avoid. It seems that France must either admit all the Allies into the Ruhr discussion or try to drown the harmony of an orchestra with a noisy trombone. It is, therefore, probable that an Allied reply will be sent to Berlin...
...unprecedented honor. After a wait of a few weeks he was called upon to take part in a duel. It is an inviolable rule that the opponents may cut, parry and lunge,, they may also move in any direction, but they cannot under any circumstance duck, their heads to avoid a blow-scars on the head being a mark of the highest honor. The young American in the heat of the duel forgot this rule and when his opponent made a lunge at him-he ducked and was ignominiously expelled from the club...
...There is no reason why a student should not elect whichever way of payment is the more satisfactory to him. It would seem as if the easier way to pay one's bill would be to send both the bill and check by mail to the bank and thus avoid all the bother and annoyance of standing in line. Receipted bills are, of course, returned by the bank by mail. As I said it is of course the privilege of every student to pay his bill by mail or in person as he pleases. I only make the above suggestion...