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...Governors pondered. By admitting foreign stocks for listing under stringent Exchange rules, most of these problems would be solved. The Exchange could handle them, because it intends to increase its floor space by onefourth; and the members are eager for them, because they would increase exchange transactions by $1,000,000,000 yearly, yielding large brokerage fees...
...Once she wrote a letter to Queen Mary of England, reproving her, if press reports had been correct, for enjoying a cigaret after luncheon. But the climax of Miss Gastori's work came in Kansas, where she, more than anyone else, was responsible for the agitation which put a stringent anti-cigaret law on the statute books 15 years ago. This law forbids the sale of cigarets or cigaret papers to any person, prohibits minors from smoking in public places...
Before 1923, Utah had an anti-cigaret law as stringent as the wavering law in Kansas...
...issued a 45-page code of regulations for the new year, revised from last year's first code (TIME, Feb. 15). The code, very full, contains the following chief items: 1) Both ships and pilots will be divided in three classes: transport, industrial, private. 2) There will be stringent inspection rules for every plane built, new or remodeled. 3) Private pilots must be aged at least 16, transport and industrial 18, and must pass examination in mechanics and operation. 4) Acrobatic flying is prohibited over congested parts of cities or towns; allowed in any case only when not carrying...
...wisely remarks, Prohibition never seems so puerile and stringent as when one sits outside of a Parisian care thinking of the homeland. Those who are forced to endure it weather the storm amiably enough, probably never realizing their utter contemptibility. Likewise is the case with that popular being--the moron. "A moron in Europe is just a moron; to America he is something more." To be exact he is a movement, a symbol, a danger, a type he is anything but an individual. This tendency of Americans to make shibboleths of casual remarks of foreigners and men without countries...