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...every schoolboy, but he vitalizes it with many a contemporary detail. While the war was still only imminent, many a Northern businessman tried to collect his Southern debts. One of them got this reply: "I promise to pay, five minutes after demand, to any northern Abolitionist, the same coin in which we paid John Brown." When the war actually broke, Secretary of State Seward's first suggestion was to reunite the Union by declaring war on France and Spain. Old General Winfield Scott hit nearer the truth than anyone by hazarding the opinion that 300,000 men under good...
...Well, it's over now," said the secretary. "If I may coin a phrase, the King signed his abdication at 1:45 with 'sad or unhappy relief,' certainly with relief. Here it is. He is no longer King of Siam but to us he will always be King...
...writer who deals in facts, Author Feuchtwanger polishes his wares until they seem as valuable and glittering as new-minted coin. Title-story in this book is a compressed novelet (it covers 35 years in 29 pages) of the love affair between Warren Hastings, ruler of India, and a little German hausfrau. Others: the fatally successful altitude flight of a French airman; a bullfight seen through a German painter's eyes; an aging poet catches his death of cold in trying to show off before a hen-brained girl...
Decision on the five cases which are the basis for action in the gold clause suits now before the Court, hinges upon the validity of Public Resolution No. 10 of the 73rd Congress. In effect, this declared that every debtor who has agreed to pay his debt in gold coin of a certain value, or in any amount of money measured thereby, shall be discharged from that debt upon payment dollar for dollar in any coin or currency which at the time of payment is legal tender for public or private debts. More simply stated, it means: That under...
...Trenchard's bench, clamped a piece of wood in it and skimmed off a shaving with the plane found in Hauptmann's garage. With a piece of paper and a pencil he made a rubbing of the planed surface as a child reproduces the design of a coin. He then made a similar rubbing of a planed surface on the ladder, showed the jury that the striations on both rubbings were identical...