Word: protections
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...right-minded people in Wall Street don't want to see the public rushing into securities without first finding out what they're buying." Setting a new high in Stock Exchange frankness, President Gay continued: "We have a number of Federal rules and regulations, set up to protect the security buyer by making it easier to get all the facts needed in studying values. But as far as I know there are no laws to protect buyers from speculating on a hit-or-miss basis, and that's where potential danger lies...
...wiry John I. Harvey, who was Jack I. Horovitz when he graduated from Princeton in 1925. Princeton's comprehensive upperclass examinations cannot be easily crammed for. Hun's patrons are almost exclusively freshmen and sophomores. Princeton has never taken official notice of Tutor Hun, except to protect dullards from a flood of Hun mail by ruling three years ago that failures in courses should not have their names publicly posted...
...before the Civil War. With their 125,000 head of red Santa Gertrudis cattle, with 500 Mexican vaqueros as retainers, they run their ranch practically as a state of their own, independent of Texas officialdom. No State highway has been allowed to cross the King Ranch, and further to protect their privacy, the Klebergs have had many miles of their land made into a State game preserve...
...Dore, one of the most picturesque politicians in the long line of colorful characters who have sat in the city's mayoral chair. When businessmen called for police to stop "violence" at the P-I plant, Mayor Dore said that "while Seattle has a Labor Administration," police would protect no strikebreakers. He is now the objective of a recall petition...
...attack and the quick recovery of those who suffered. While the burden of suspicion falls on veal and ice-cream served in the Union, the lack of definite bacteriological evidence make any attempt to fix the blame extremely difficult. Thus, with the University doing all in its power to protect the food from contaminating influences, all the student can do when the plague strikes is to screw his courage to the sticking place and hope it strikes somebody else...