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...elections, they should control the next Chamber, should be able to form the next Cabinet. Their united votes last week were less than had been anticipated, about 50% of the 10,000,000 cast. Thus chances were that the Left Front can form a government only by coin-promising with the Right in the traditional French manner. During the life of the last Chamber of Deputies France changed Cabinets eleven times...
...role in the old rite, watched in Westminster Abbey while his Almoner distributed doeskin purses of scarlet & white thongs to 67 hand-picked old men of the Parish of Westminster, 67 old women, the King being 67 years old. Since a set of specially minted Maundy Pence is a coin collectors' item worth $1, the old folks get a little more than face value for their handout. They also get $12.50 per man, $8.75 per woman, in lieu of a gift of clothing...
...Liberty Street branch of Manhattan's Chemical Safe Deposit Co. last week went Captain William H. Houghton, U. S. Secret Service chief in New York, and two assistants. They had received, a tip that one Zelik Josefowitz was hoarding a large store of gold coin. Armed with a search warrant, they opened the safe deposit box held by Zelik Josefowitz and two other members of the Josefowitz family. Inside were four bags, the weight of which convinced the agents that their search was ended. Opened, the bags revealed a treasure in the form of $20 gold pieces. For three...
...Guernsey, studied Yogi philosophy, wrote comforting letters to her much-troubled daughter, Anne Urquhart Potter ("Fifi") Stillman McCormick. Died. David Sheldon Barry, 76, long-time newspaper correspondent, onetime (1919-33) Sergeant-at-Arms of the U. S. Senate; of heart disease; in Washington D. C. Died. William Hope ("Coin") Harvey, 84, oldtime champion of bimetallism on whose coattails William Jennings Bryan rose to fame; of peritonitis; in Monte Ne, Ark. In 1900, when the Democrats abandoned their advocacy of free coinage of silver, Harvey moved to the Ozarks, began work on his proposed 130-ft. "Pyramid of America...
...their annual convention at Chicago's Sherman Hotel. On display were 50 new varieties of bagatelle boards including one to resemble a map of Ethiopia with Haile Selassie's palace az high-score hole. To his confreres, Clinton S. Darling, secretary of the National Association of Coin Operated Machine Manufacturers, expressed his confidence in a pastime which has already lasted twice as long as midget golf: "The industry has supported many thousands of factory workers in making these games and in allied industries. . . . We believe that this industry will go on in spite of temporary handicaps such...