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...Schacht has stood off Germany's creditors with phenomenal adroitness; he created and managed the trickiest set of currencies the world has ever seen, the various varieties of German marks; and more recently he has sewed up banks, governments and firms in many countries of the world in barter deals by which Germany, since she could not pay, got what she wanted by swapping. If trading were even remotely free on German stock exchanges there would have been panic and chaos last week as it was realized that Schacht was out-but iron, totalitarian Nazi control kept all quiet...
...live hoot owls-everything but puppy dog tails. The first international encampment in the U. S. of Girl Scouts and Girl Guides -only 101 strong-convened last week in a grove near Briarcliff Manor, about 35 miles north of Manhattan, but again the primeval urge made itself felt. Their barter, however, consisted of more appropriate articles, cotton bolls from South Carolina, scarves, tubes of powdered iron ore from Minnesota. Scout Sally Page of El Paso appeared with trade goods consisting of $2,000 worth of repudiated Mexican money...
...become an Episcopal minister. A radical, David Colony was assigned to teach Latin at swank Episcopal Academy and assist in a church at Rosemont, both on the Main Line and both cool to his notions. Transferred to more congenial, lower-class parishes in Philadelphia suburbs. Rector Colony established a barter system for the unemployed, a "school of the poor for the poor" which was to be supported by penny contributions. In 1934 and 1935 he wrote articles for Harper's and Scribner's, respectively, comparing the U. S. Episcopal clergy with that of pre-War Russia and accusing...
Maverick studied his constituents with more thoroughness than most politicians, even made a trip through Texas disguised as a hobo (see cut). Even before Hoover's Reconstruction Finance Corp. was functioning. Maverick had started a relief experiment, the Diga colony, on a cooperative, barter basis. He was elected to Congress in 1934. has since made a name for himself as a progressive New Dealer. His greatest admiration is not Roosevelt but Senator Norris...
...nation's honor can only be wrested from it and it can not be the object of barter. But with this declaration I wish to announce that the era of so-called Surprises has been concluded. As a State with equal rights, Germany with the fullest loyalty will henceforth do her share in settling European problems and in solving such problems as may concern not only ourselves but other nations." Only spectators who know both Germany and Hitler could fully appreciate the fervor of this declaration by Der Führer or the fervor of the response evoked...