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...banks could proceed at once to make change, to relieve the shortage of small bills and coin...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PRESIDENCY: Bottom | 3/13/1933 | See Source »

...What's that?" the officer asked, pointing to the magnifying glass near the coin slot...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Crime-of-the-Week | 1/23/1933 | See Source »

...agreed to accept the paper at face value. Every time a scrip dollar changes hands, the receiver sticks on it a 2? stamp, bought from the Merchants' Association. When the back of an Eirma bill has been covered with 50 stamps, it can be redeemed in U. S. coin. Merchants who have bought stamps will be credited with the amount in tax anticipation warrants. Milwaukee and Chicago pondered following Evanston's lead...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: STATES & CITIES: For Money | 1/9/1933 | See Source »

...Paramount). A Manhattan gambler, hard-pressed by the police, selects a hideaway by stabbing a time table with a pencil. In the sleepy village of Glendale he comes upon a beautiful librarian who is yearning for metropolitan excitements. He decides, on the flip of a coin, to marry her, takes her back to town with him. By the time the picture is over, hardboiled Babe Stewart is no longer a gambler. Reformed by his gay little librarian, he has voluntarily served three months in jail, is in a fair way to become-for him a step up in the world...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures: Jan. 9, 1933 | 1/9/1933 | See Source »

...beauteous Arkansas soprano who went from the Follies to Metropolitan Opera to retirement, tried a comeback during the introduction of celebrity-guests at the opening of the supper club in Manhattan's Ritz-Carlton Hotel. In a pause between phrases of "Carry Me Back to Old Virginia," a coin clattered at her feet, flipped by a sot. Mary Lewis stooped, picked up the coin, finished her song amid tremendous applause...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Oct. 31, 1932 | 10/31/1932 | See Source »

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