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...miracles narrated in the four Gospels, Mr. Carrington thinks some are coincidences (e. g., quieting the storm, the heavy catch of fish) while others are simply parables (e. g., feeding the multitude, finding the coin in the fish's mouth). Changing water to wine may have been mass hypnotism. Most of the others, especially the healing miracles, he considers to be demonstrations of Jesus Christ's extraordinary psychic power-but within the frame of Nature. Some of the disorders represented as blindness, dumbness, leprosy, demoniacal possession may have been hysterical in character and thus curable by powerful suggestion...
...weeks ago Forrest Smith, State Auditor of Missouri, was buzzing about the Treasury Department in Washington. "Wouldn't the U. S. coin one and five-mill pieces," he begged, "to assist Missourians in paying the 1% sales tax imposed by their Legislature?" Secretary Henry Morgenthau Jr. assented. Franklin Roosevelt drew a picture of the coins as he would like them (TIME, Aug. 5). A bill went to the House Committee on Coinage, Weights & Measures, where Representative Lloyd Thurston of Osceola, Iowa made this proposal...
Five other States have resorted to their own form of "money" to make sales tax payments of less than 1?, despite the Treasury's opinion that such action infringes the Federal Government's sole power under the Constitution to coin money. The States' retort is that what they are issuing is not "legal tender" and therefore worthless for anything but their sales tax. Illinois has issued round aluminum tokens about the size of a dime, is now issuing larger square tokens that are less apt to be misused in telephones, slot machines and other coin devices...
Making no effort to coin a deathless phrase, Edward of Wales last week inaugurated London Post Office's new telegraph rate of nine words for sixpence by wiring his father: "I have the honor to address Your Majesty in this inaugural telegram at the new rate of nine words for sixpence. Edward...
...Baltimore, Md., a potful of U. S. gold coins with a face value of $11,425, found last year in a cellar by Henry Grob and Theodore Jones, both 17, and awarded them by a Circuit Court Judge, was auctioned off to rare coin collectors for a total of $22,500. Highest price: $105 for a $20 gold piece, one of 2,250 minted at New Orleans...