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...design of any U. S. coin may be changed after 25 years. Because the buffalo-Indian head nickel will be 25 years old on February 21, Secretary of the Treasury Morgenthau last week announced that the Mint would coin no more after that date. A jury composed of Director of the Mint Nellie Tayloe Ross and three sculptors-Sidney Waugh, Albert Stewart and Heinz Warneke-will pick a new design from those submitted by artists. But the New Deal has already picked the subject of the winning design. It must bear a portrait of Thomas Jefferson on the obverse...
...words that 1) originated in the U.S. 2) have disappeared in England, or 3) have changed their meaning since emigration from England. Listed in Part III are such everyday words as build (in the sense of "construct"), which was only in literary use in England before it became common coin in the U. S.; bull, bimch, bumper, burial ground, bum, bunkum, boss, bluff (derived from the game of poker), business (meaning an occupation or industry...
...minority: "If you will look at the Eighth Commandment [Thou shalt not steal] you will find it difficult to reconcile with it what has been done here today. ... In 1917 we had war. The Government . . . offered the best investment on earth, the promise to pay in gold coin. It continued to do this for ten years. Then the President and Congress denied the right to gold coin. No honest individual should be permitted to do this thing. . . . This opinion sanctions an act of fraud...
Three Yardlings signed up for magic, two for pigeon raising, three for palmistry, one for polemies, one for genealogy, one for the study of humor, and three for numismatics, the science of coin collecting. Ceramics or the study of pottery, with two enthusiasts, is one of the latest subjects to appear on the sheets in the Union...
...Irish Free State. Third and final night the U. S. riders, out to protect their slim lead, were charged with twelve faults in the team jumping. The Canadian and Belgian teams tied with eight faults each, and Belgium was awarded first place on the flip of a coin. When the final scores were totaled. Canada had nosed out the U. S. by one point: Belgium was third. Irish Free State fourth and The Netherlands an ignominious fifth...