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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...America returns to the gold standard with the gold content of the dollar reduced, as seems likely," Mr. Takahashi said, "Japan probably will be compelled thereafter to devalue the yen similarly in order to resume gold payments. Preparations for such an eventuality will be necessary to strengthen the nation's gold reserves...
Same day in Canada, where seizure of private property is repugnant to every Methodist fibre of rich and pious Premier Richard Bedford Bennett, the project of reducing the gold content of the Canadian dollar-without confiscation-became an active issue in the Dominion Press. Usually well posted, Toronto's Globe said that Premier Bennett was expected shortly to ask Parliament to devalue the Canadian dollar...
...adoption by statute of such a lower gold content of the Canadian dollar would," said the Globe, "undoubtedly have widespread reaction. It would in due time reduce by one-third the burden of all indebtedness payable in Canadian currency, and would tend to increase prices of commodities in the domestic trade of Canada in similar proportion...
Myron and Ora Weagle, sons of a small-town hotelkeeper in Connecticut, are as different as brothers can be. Myron is a conscientious worker whereas Ora fancies himself as a poet. When they leave home, Myron is content to get an even more menial job at another hotel, but Ora drifts to Manhattan, his idea of Parnassus. Step by step, but with a fatherly eye more on priggish Myron than on piggish Ora, Author Lewis reports their slow, vicissitudinous careers. Ora finds the fleshpots of Greenwich Village agree with him. He writes one good but unsuccessful novel, the fruit...
...find there the particular examination papers he has set his heart on. Somebody else has invariably pre-empted the 1933 models first, absconding with them in unholy glee and with the determination to make the most of his luck; with the result that the student in question must content himself with a volume of archaic exams more in keeping with the curiosities in the treasure room than the exam files...