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...margins as low as 5% instead of the 40% now required for stocks. Biggest inducement is that the Government, with its powers over the banking structure and its large trading operations in its own securities, can and does rig the market to protect its issues, which private financiers are forbidden...
...months in Tibet are described in Penthouse of the Gods. An unusual travel book, particularly outstanding for its photographs, it describes his journey from India through the 18,000-foot passes of the Himalayas, the diplomatic wangling which got him an official invitation to the "forbidden city" of Lhasa, his novitiate in the big monasteries of Drepung, Sera and Ganden, with monk populations from 5,000 to 10,000. The climax is, of course, the fussy, interminable ceremony at which he became a full-fledged Lama, a Western reincarnation of a long-dead Tibetan saint. For readers who picture Tibet...
...President at the Hotel Mayflower, partly to save Franklin Roosevelt the embarrassment of crossing an A. F. of L. picket line.* However, since waiters, cooks and bartenders at the Mayflower and twelve other Capital hotels had struck for a closed shop, Actors' Equity Association would have forbidden professional entertainers to appear; food & service would have been substandard; Secret Service men would have strenuously objected to the President risking a picket line, even had he been willing...
...exiles want to return to Spain. Stories of dire reprisals awaiting them in Spain have reached the refugee camps by grapevine. Typical of how news travels among the refugees was the method adopted by a recent fugitive from Catalonia. Forbidden by French authorities to make a speech in the camp, he drew a map of Spain in the sand. Inside the outline he sketched a firing squad pointing their rifles at a group of civilians. No refugee misunderstood the man's meaning...
...decades Sport's roving good-will ambassador, received a kick in its white flannel pants. Drawing up manifestoes for the coming season, the Italian Tennis Federation announced that: 1) Italian tennis players henceforth will be required to play international matches in uniform; 2) handshaking between opponents will be forbidden "to avoid the weed of intimacy which for too long has infested lawn tennis courts...