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...moral thus far to be drawn from the Ruskay episode is twofold: 1) the risks of conducting a bucketshop are small in comparison with its possible profits, and 2) if you are going to steal your customers' money be sure and get several millions at least...
...PAUL BONCOUR: "I have no suspicion that the Premier aspires to dictatorship-his twofold tradition as a lawyer and republican makes such a suggestion ridiculous. And if he was not bound by diplomatic reserve I believe he himself would censure those carnival Caesars who rule over neighboring States. But I would remind the Premier that no regime can ever be defended which yields on principle...
...Public life and the law" will be the twofold subject of the first talk, which is scheduled for Thursday, March 6, by George W. Wickersham Hon. LL.D. '21. Mr. Wickersham was Attorney General of the United States under President Taft and is now a partner in the law firm of Cadwalader, Wickersham and Taft...
...called the New Mexico Painters. It includes: F. G. Applegate, J. G. Bakos, Gustave Bauman, Ernest L. Blumenschein, William P. Henderson, Victor Higgins, B. J. O. Nordfeldt, Walter Ufer-Blumenschein, Higgins, Ufer are particularly well known as painters of Indian and desert subjects. The purposes of the group are twofold: 1) "To produce beautiful and vital works of art" inspired by the blending of Spanish, Anglo-Saxon and Indian civilizations in the great Southwest (the old Spanish province of Nueva Mexico); 2) to hold annual exhibitions in New York, Chicago and other art centers. The men are mostly progressives...
...purpose of the innovation is twofold--"to give the student some idea of the contribution of these fields of human knowledge to the advance of civilization, and to aid him in his choice of subjects for Concentration and Distribution". General summaries of science, philosophy, language, and other departments of human knowledge have before this been instituted here. But the correlation of all these departments has never previously been tried. The prospect at the outset appears little short of bewildering but whether or not the breathless freshman can assimilate the whole, one valuable thing will be accomplished. Heterogeneous reading of groups...