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...coins-261,064 of them-had piled up all last year in the pyx box*-one coin from each batch (or part thereof) of 2,000 silver coins delivered from the coining room to the superintendent of all U.S. mints during the year. The Assay Commission (eleven Presidential civilian appointees, three ex-officio members), using the official mint weights, went to work, testing, weighing, counting. To nobody's surprise, the commission found the U.S.'s 1944 coinage sound...
Wanted: A Change. To assay these reports, Defense Minister Ralston had toured the battlefronts. Now, at a series of secret, full-dress Cabinet meetings in Ottawa, he demanded a change in government policy. He insisted that the Dominion's 70,000-odd "Zombies" (soldiers drafted for home defense service only) should be sent overseas. Prime Minister William Lyon Mackenzie King and a majority of the Cabinet listened for ten days, remained unconvinced. They felt sure that if they decided to change policy now, they would be opening the door to serious internal ruptures, perhaps even to bloody riots such...
...least ironic facts of our "greatest democracy on earth" that in one way or another we have either assassinated, rejected or shamefully repudiated the greatest democratic leaders this country has produced-among them Lincoln, Wilson and Willkie. We believe the worst that history will be able to assay against Willkie is that he lived out of his era. And whose shame is it if the American people had not the discernment and vision and integrity to accept the One World idea until possibly a Third World War has made it in fact a One World destroyed...
...International Labor Office assigned British Political Scientist Herman Finer to make a thorough assay of these dreams...
...Hopes. This week few Congressmen had had time to assay all the shimmering facets of Ickes' vast, visionary nugget. But to at least one of them it seemed just fine. Joe O'Mahoney has shouted for years for the development of the West, expense be damned. To him it means not merely more economic independence for the U.S., but industrialization for Wyoming and environs. Ickes threw in another shiner that appealed to monopoly-hating Joe: he suggested that all patents and processes affecting scarce metals, whether U.S.-owned or not, be made available to the Bureau of Mines...