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Every game has its own ethics. In baseball, it is permissible to rattle a pitcher by making a noise; but a golfer who shouts when his opponent is putting is a boorish cheat. In football, it is ethical to render an adversary senseless by hard tackling; it would be easy but unfair to win a rubber of bridge in the same way. A question of ethics in sport was internationally discussed last week after the conclusion of the Harmsworth Cup (motor boat) races in Detroit...
...property to his intended heirs when he felt death overtaking him. So widespread became this type of tax evasion that Congress in 1926 amended the Internal Revenue Laws by inserting a provision (Section 302C) that all such gifts within two years of death were presumably made to cheat the U. S. Treasury and must be taxed as part of the final estate. Last week in Manhattan U. S. District Judge Alfred Conkling Coxe declared Section 302C unconstitutional as it deprived heirs of their property without due process of law. Judge Coxe reasoned that Congress could not set up a legal...
...Rumanian Cheat. Somewhat less revolting than the Egyptian fraud was Rumania's election last week - for in Ru mania each party has its turn at cheating...
...this Colossus of Britain were a monstrous swindler and a mean cheat, what Court, what Law would be so mighty as to overawe or punish him? Last week in the ancient, musty Guildhall of London, Lord Kylsant was brought to trial before a man even more impressive than himself. Without the consent of this awful man (always readily granted) the King of England himself cannot enter his own City of London. The Awful Man is Sir William Phené Neal, Lord Mayor of London. Sir Phené Neal is also Chief Magistrate of the City of London. In his great...
...cheat, Sir William Gordon-Cumming, Lieut.-Colonel in the Scots Guards, was forced by H. R. H. to sign a pledge that he would never play cards again for money. But this pledge, despite the fulminations of even the London Times, the future King Edward would not sign...