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...depreciated Union pounds. Appealing to South Africa's mining interests he offered them the prospect of paying their golddiggers in devaluated paper while continuing to sell their gold abroad for its unvariable, basic value which is the cornerstone of international finance. Finally Judge Roos appealed to the arch enemy of his own Nationalist Party which he was trying to split-to Jan Christiaan Smuts...
Alarmed at the plight of U. S. birds whose food supply has been buried under deep snow, Audubon Society officials recently went to the Post Office Department with an idea. Last week First Assistant Postmaster General Arch Coleman announced that bird-lovers may mail cracked corn and small grain, to be scattered by rural mail carriers along their routes. Sufficient address: "Mr. & Mrs. Bird...
...hockey, owned no equipment, had practiced only once, planned to play Vassar. The game was arranged by a Princeton field hockeyist who knows Right-Halfback Alice Morris of the Vassar team. On the Princeton team, which calls itself the "Bengals." are : Stan Purnell, baseball captain and football right-halfback; Arch Brooks, lacrosse captain; John Rutherford, boxer; Hugh Boice, ice hockey captain...
...Scripps-Howard Rocky Mountain News in Denver enjoyed a field day last week at the expense of its arch-enemy Publisher Frederick G. Bonfils of the Denver Post. It seized the opportunity to spread upon its pages with impunity the following allegations about swaggering Publisher Bonfils...
...Admiralty Arch and its iron gates (which prudent bobbies had locked) stood like Gibraltar while Admiral Nelson looked down from his Trafalgar Column and saw the line of bobbies hold. A second mob, however, had rushed down Whitehall, 5,000 strong, heading for No. 10 Downing St., the residence of Prime Minister MacDonald. This mob was briefly checked, until police reserves could rush up and beat it back, by a thin line of ornate, scarlet-coated heroes, the Royal Horse Guards?erroneously supposed by tourists to be good for nothing but the ceremony of "changing the guard...