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Something of that sort must by mathematical necessity be back of at least 90% of the newsstories which every few months tell of someone in the U. S. holding a 13-trump bridge hand. Such is the conclusion of Louis Frank Woodruff, assistant professor of electrical power transmission, at M. I. T., who has worked out some remarkable card facts by means of algebraic permutations & combinations. In the current issue of M. I. T.'s Technology Review Professor Woodruff's figures show that the chance of any honestly dealt hand's consisting of an entire suit...
...more immediate interest to bridge enthusiasts are the figures on distribution expectancy. Run-of-the-mine players who feel "safer" in a suit bid than at no-trump, like to pick up hands containing long suits studded with honors, short or void suits representing ability to ruff. If the cards are shuffled so that a truly random arrangement results, a player should get a 6-card suit every six hands, a 7-card suit every 28 hands, a singleton every three hands, a void suit every 20 hands...
...within which they operate does not now empower them to validate the important legislation of the NRA, and it will not do so until the Supreme Court has built a broad basis for the executive claims. The emergency basis of the Minnesota Mortgage decision is a trifling trump in a game so large, and so far reaching, as that which the President's compromise has set in motion. The alternative is to strike, while the emergency Iron it hot, for a Supreme Court decision that will rehabilitate the bases of administrative jurisdiction, and make the Federal Trade Commission even stronger...
...final trump Chancellor Hitler played a gruff, five minute radio speech to the Fatherland by President von Hindenburg. "It is a lie, it is a vilification," rumbled der Feldmarschall, "if the outside world imputes warlike intentions to us [but] true peace can be achieved only on the basis of equality. Let your votes be a profession with me and with the Chancellor for the principle of equality and for peace with honor...
...high tension is assuming normality. Herr Dollfuss is still ruling by the skin of his excellently white teeth, the Nazis and Heimwehr are making a great deal of noise and suffering a wild persecution, and the Socialists are biding their time, suspicious of both parties, with a general strike trump up their ragged sleeves in case of emergency. The Chancellor has ordered gallows to be erected for public punishment; mass demonstrations have been outlawed; the opposition press is now effectively muzzled. One thing which this situation ensures is that the German coup d'etat will not be reproduced...