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...consumer may not get so large an allowance under the code but he will at least get the benefit of strict provisions against misrepresentations. The unhappy buyer of a "doped" car can go straight to the district code Administrator with his tale of a tampered speedometer, sawdust in the gears, ground cork in the differential...
...Strict enforcement of the Nazi "non-Aryan clause" which has barred professing Christians of Jewish blood from Evangelical churches. Special "Ghetto churches" should be provided for such "Jewish Christians...
While all Britain chuckled at how he had outwitted the strict British law against lotteries, Scotland Yard men walked into battlemented Blair Castle for a conference with the sporting Duke. Last week in Bow Street Police Court the Director of Public Prosecutions, Sir Edward Hale Tindal Atkinson, applied for a summons against the Duke of Atholl for violation of the lotteries act. The judge granted it, calling His Grace before the grimy Bow Street bar next week to answer to the Crown for his wit. Atholl had popular British sympathy last week because everyone knew he had really been trying...
...other brokers, keep a record ("book") of orders placed above or below the market. When the market price reaches the prices fixed in the orders, the specialist executes them. Because the specialist thus knows the supply & demand factors better than anyone else, the Stock Exchange has passed very strict rules forbidding the specialist to use this inside information for his own gain. Offenses are called "trading against the book...
...replaced by the notion of behaviour. . . . Determinism has broken down, and the principle of indeterminacy has taken its place. There is great difference of opinion at present as to whether this is a genuine discovery, or as to whether it is a merely temporary technical device." Einstein thinks "strict causality" will some day be reinstated; Eddington thinks that rascal is out for good. On the whole, says Sullivan, man should lift up his heart again, contemplate the universe with renewed hope. Science is no longer implacable and omniscient; it has become "selfconscious and comparatively humble. . . . The discovery that science...