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...closing, my nine (count 'em--nine) room mates and I would like to raise a collection of enough nickels and dimes to fill the coin box of ELIot 8361 sufficiently to persuade Western Union to send an invitation extending the hospitality of our unused broom closet (which has a semi-Murphy bed folded up in it) to Benny the Book, who probably would like to find some place that would be nice to come home...
...good deal of the characteristically jeering American attitude toward the elected representatives of the American people. For the U.S. Congress knows-as the American people know-that, in spite of sectional differences, in spite of politics and politicians and party lines, E Pluribus Unum is more than a coin-worn phrase...
...Coin's Two Faces. Money is the commonest concern of mankind. Plain people talk about it constantly. In cafés, on trains, in bazaars, on front porches, over backyard fences everywhere in the world, money-the money price of things, the money rate for jobs-is the most common element in normal conversation. Not love, not crime, but money...
...international money was not always a tangle. Once it was almost as simple as coin in the pants pocket. And then there was better employment and a greater rate of progress. Out of this relatively happy experience and the unhappy turmoil of the '20s and '30s may come the knowledge that will make money simple and stimulating again...
...underlining the responsibility of creditors, Keynes is doing no more than applying to international affairs the daily practice of the salesman who prudently refuses to overload his weak or greedy customers. In treating gold not as a bag of coin to be flung on the counter every time there is a balance to be squared, but as a reserve and measuring rod, Keynes is simply applying internationally the practice of domestic banking systems as exemplified by the U.S. Federal Reserve System...