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Tactfully Premier Hertzog said no more last week than that his Government "plans" to have the South African branch of the Royal Mint strike very shortly a new basic coin containing 113 grains of fine gold. Great Britain's pound, while on the gold standard, was also equivalent to 113 grains of fine gold, and South Africa's pound still is. Thus the Union's new unit will have exactly the same value as her present unit; but it will have a gorgeous, glowing 100% South African name, "the Rand...
Principal and Mistress of the little Red school are Comrade Mike Gruzenberg and his wife Comrade Fanny. Famed under his alias "Borodin," Comrade Gruzenberg is considered throughout Russia the ablest Red instigator of foreign revolutions. In the East his silver tongue and Moscow's gold coin made possible the revolutionary conquest of all China by Generalissimo Chiang Kaishek, now President. Today the Chinese Government, which broke with Russia to establish friendly relations with other Great Powers (TIME, April 25, 1927), is again angling for Moscow...
...Coin and Bills...
...every one congregated there for a demi-taste which one is served there (courtesy of the Corporation) after lunch and dinner. We liked the way the morning papers are stacked at the entrance of the hall, with no more urgent a spur to the conscience than a mute, coin-filled plate on guard...
...Blair and his childless wife Philly were as poor as their neighbors, maybe poorer. So when Andy, chopping at a stump of firewood, struck an iron pot, he was sure it was a pot of gold. For once Andy w was right: the pot held over $1,900 in coin, and two pearls. At first the old couple wanted to run and tell everybody, then they thought better of it. They hid the treasure in the house, invited the neighbors to a surprise party. By the time the night of the party came they had worried so much about their...