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...Newark, N. J., William Muller, 21, a Manhattan waiter, was apprehended removing nickels from a telephone booth. William Muller confessed he had stuffed napkins in the coin-return slots of 40 pay stations, had made regular rounds to pull out the napkins, remove the accumulated coins...
...closed the stadium from July till last November. Since then its lights have blazed every night, and into its till has clinked good Chicago coin. The bond interest has been cleared off. Accounts due have come far down from the $120,000 that was owing last July. President Strotz boasts that his business has been better than Madison Square Garden's- and the latter offers no figures in dispute. The Stadium costs about $1,350 daily to operate. But it will seat 24.000 at a pinch and Sidney Strotz has managed to find people who could show...
When Jesus of Nazareth scourged the money changers out of the Temple, his head was on no coin. But in Vatican City last week the Papal Government promulgated a new law authorizing issuance of Papal State gold, silver, nickel and copper coins...
Nuns, Princesses, Coin-Hoarders...
...nuns masquerading as proletarians. Two of them, whilom Mother Superior Belayeva and Sister Danilova (both of the suppressed Convent of Ekaterinburg), were further accused of being former princesses.- To their homes the Ogpu frog-marched the protesting nuns, ransacked, found 800 silver ruble pieces, 250 rubles in Tsarist gold coins, "a panful of copper coins" and 515 carats of assorted precious stones. In reporting the women's arrest as "coin-hoarders," famed Besbozhnik ("The Atheist") ominously stated last week that twelve priests have been arrested for coin-hoarding in recent months, that twelve other persons have been shot...