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...When two girls fancy a man, everyone is apt to be perturbed, and someone, according to Playwright Arthur F. Brash, is likely to get killed. Barbara Herford and Paula Newhall bet fifty dollars over Boyd Butler, a robust footballer who was also greatly interested in such erudite matters as coin collections...
Wrote Sergeant Secrett, for 25 years personal servant of the late Field Marshal Earl Haig: "He had that little peculiarity about him-he hated parting with actual coin of the realm...
Another who hates parting with actual coin of the realm is President Hipolito Irigoyen of Argentina. Almost since his inauguration last October he has refused to sanction payment for government bills contracted with "serious irregularities" by his predecessor, President Marcelo T. de Alvear (1922-28). Last week two new Argentine destroyers were ready for delivery in British shipyards. A transport with a crew of 800 officers and sailors had arrived at London docks, ready to take over the war boats and sail them back to Buenos Aires. Unfortunately President Irigoyen had neglected to send any money. As Horatius defied...
Numismatists were surprised last week when the world's record auction price for a coin was paid in Manhattan, not for the currency of some ancient empire, but for a U. S. $5 goldpiece issued in California in 1849. The coin was privately minted, at the time of the Gold Rush, for the Massachusetts & California Co. Its face depicts a cowboy busy with a lariat, a bear and a deer. For it a Philadelphia dealer, acting on behalf of an anonymous client, bid $7,900. The coin came from the big collection of the late Dr. George Alfred Lawrence...
...Federal Judge Kenesaw Mountain Landis fined Standard $29,240,000, largest fine in history. Said Judge Landis: "You wound society more deeply than those who counterfeit the coin." Even had Standard paid the fine, it would have been a mere drop out of the Standard bucket. In 1911 the U. S. Supreme Court ordered Standard to "resolve into its original units, and restore free competition in the oil industry." Author Winkler suspects and says that Standard still functions as a unit...