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This practice with regard to "margin" stock is unavoidable and is in every way legal and legitimate. But owing to the fact that most brokerage customers do not fully understand the business, it permits unprincipled brokers to sell out their customers' stock as fast as it is purchased&−...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business & Finance: What is a Bucketshop? | 6/18/1923 | See Source »

When one studies any great reform, he will find that this is usually the track taken by the opposition to discredit and break up the movement. When arguments and fair play fail, the opposition usually resorts to personalities and underhanded methods.

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Loyal Coalition | 3/18/1921 | See Source »

(2) He never seeks information by underhanded or surreptitious means;

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: COACH KNOX DEFENDS HARVARD SYSTEM OF SCOUTING | 1/3/1921 | See Source »

In a section meeting, which, in the past, has been no exception to the rule that weekly tests are rife with dishonesty, the honor system has eliminated practically every trace of underhanded methods. The opponents of the reform must admit that this is something of a gain. Mechanical, as they...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: AN EXPERIMENT WITH THE HONOR SYSTEM. | 5/23/1911 | See Source »

It is to be deplored that there has been much evidence of electioneering for several of the Class Day offices. A candidate who allows or encourages such electioneering in his behalf betrays personal motives incompatible with the best interest of the class. The man who electioneers forcibly brings to light...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Communication. | 12/16/1904 | See Source »

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