Word: caveat
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Denver and started a high-class gambling house. He called it "an educational institution! The famous Keeley institute provides a cure for the drinking habit. At the Tivoli I have a cure for the gambling habit. The man who steps into my place is faced with the sign, 'Caveat Emptor' which hangs upon the wall." For the improperly educated, Soapy translated the Latin text into real life. When Denver finally decided it was tired of Soapy and his kind, he moved on again, this time to Mexico, where he almost sold old Porfirio Díaz the services...
...person who will shy away from this book for fear that the life of one of the lesser known Harvard Presidents will be drudgery and a boring tale, may this review by a caveat. Here is an interesting story of an unusual life, and a tale of educational changes and problems which, in a time like the present, should not fail to interest anyone in a university community...
...obligation upon us to insist that every issue of new securities to be sold in interstate commerce shall be accompanied by full publicity and information, and that no essentially important element attending the issue shall be concealed from the buying public. This proposal adds to the ancient rule of caveat emptor ['Let the buyer beware'] the further doctrine: 'Let the seller also beware' [caveat venditor]. It puts the burden of telling the whole truth on the seller. It should give impetus to honest dealing in securities and thereby bring back public confidence...
...matters like this Wall Street is prone to rely heavily upon the famed doctrine of Caveat Emptor ("Let the buyer beware"). On the other hand the investing public, as represented by their District Attorneys, like to put the blame for any loss on the financial go-between...
...Stimson letter was the announcement by the U. S. Government last January that it would recognize no treaty-violating spoils which Japan might wring from China as the result of current fighting. Now, however. Secretary Stimson invited other governments to take a similar position so that "a caveat [warn-ing] will be placed upon such action which, we believe, will effectively bar the legality hereafter of any title or right obtained by pressure or treaty violation . . . and will eventually lead to the restoration to China of rights and titles of which she may have been deprived." Few of the things...