Word: drachmae
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...immediately improvised either in New York or in Paris." Almighty Dollar, Mighty Franc. British bankers might whistle last week, French and U. S. bankers might sympathize, might aid * but Greeks, Turks, Brazilians and such put John Bull's pound pudding to the proof. Greece, which has pegged her drachma to the British pound for years, switched last week, pegged it to the dollar. Small Danzig did likewise with her gulden. Great Brazil, whose 20 United States are larger than the 48 U. S. states, began at once to collect certain taxes on a dollar basis, despite the fact that...
They wagered 50,000 Greek drachma ($650) on the sovereign to whom they are accredited, Tsar Boris of Bulgaria...
...hours before Tsar Boris was to enter Italy incognito the 50,000 drachma bet seemed as good as won. Suddenly however Cavalier General Ivan Wolkoff left the amorous embers he had been poking up at Rome, rushed to meet and stop Tsar Boris at Vienna. Next day it was announced that a painful ear was the sole reason for the royal migration, and after this had been tinkered by a Viennese otologist His Majesty went, not to Rome, but on a brief, face-saving visit to Prague, Czechoslovakia. While there he did nothing more remarkable than pay a piquant visit...
...Pope Pius XI. The Holy Father listened perhaps to amorous pleadings and arguments by the world's only Bachelor Tsar. But last week the bet was definitely lost. Ruefully at Sofia, His Excellency the Italian Minister?not a sure- thing better after all?drew his check for 50,000 drachma and sent it round to the Greek Legation...
...over the mountainous divide into Albania, foregathered in the cellar of the leading Greek restaurant in the Albanian capital of Tirana. There the bandit leader, one Constantine Bogdanopoulos, ordered Italian champagne and lamb kidneys broiled on skewers, flung on the table a money belt from which spilled many a drachma, and, later in the evening, boastfully unmasked to a pop-eyed Albanian journalist the mystery of Kopra...