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When the prizes were distributed, Mrs. William Kissam Vanderbilt II could not restrain a smile, several smiles. Horse Sarazen was her horse. Pierre Wertheimer smiled too, but a bit grimly. His Epinard had failed him again, for second money does not become "the finest horseflesh of France...
...Enforcement. "To the enforcement of the law, and all the law, we stand definitely pledged. We shall enforce it as fearlessly against wealth that endeavors to restrain trade and create monopoly as against poverty that counterfeits the currency; as vigorously against ambition which seeks to climb to office through the corrupt use of money as against the lesser greed that robs the mails. For no reason that is apparent to me the question has been asked, as perhaps it will continue to be asked until it has been definitely answered, what views I hold concerning the enforcement of the Eighteenth...
Sales of mail order houses to farmers have experienced a considerable increase, and now reports are that agricultural sections are beginning to purchase binders, weeders and other farm implements. On the other hand, the wheat farmer's hard experience since 1920 has restrained and will restrain him from land speculation, and the purchasing of more luxuries. Western bankers doubt that even a continuance of the present prosperity of the wheat belt would insure a complete cleaning up of old debts, yet the retirement of a greater part of them this year is confidently predicted...
...guests by allowing each state chairman to invite three. The small size of the balcony in New Lecture Hall will make it impossible to admit the public. The convention will be limited to male guests, so that the presence of women and children will not force the delegates to restrain themselves...
...ever green credulity of the investing public is one of the most astonishing features of American business. Recently, New York State applied for an injunction against the Tomadelli Electronic Light Corporation, to restrain it from selling any more of its stock to the public. The company was formed to promote an alleged invention known as "Bottled Sunlight" (TIME, March 10, SCIENCE). Concretely, this was claimed to consist of a new sort of incandescent bulb which apparently did not need electric current to make it shine. When produced in court, however, sample bulbs had no sparkle in them whatsoever...