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...South African florin will be worth 11.30016 grains of pure gold and 100 cents will make a florin. But that will not be all. Patriotically last week Premier James Barry Munnik Hertzog proposed that ten florins shall make a rand. He was roundly cheered. In the Netherlands there is no rand. From South Africa's famed Rand comes every year more than half the world's new gold...
...from your issue of Jan. 7, page 16: ''Two sows are a hen, three hens are a hare, two hares are a wolfhound, and two wolfhounds are a cow." This might be continued: "Two cows are a salmon," which would make the approximate value of an Irish florin 48c and not $2.91 as you state. Greetings...
...Florin $2.91 Salmon
...bill asking for a million florin ($400,000) appropriation to finance the 1928 Olympic Games, introduced last month (TIME, Apr. 6), was defeated by 48 to 36 in the Lower House of the States-General (Parliament) at The Hague...
...feature of the debate will be the award of the Coolidge prize. Florin the Coolidge fund medals are given each year to all men who speaks in a debate against either Yale of Princeton, and in addition a prize of $11100 is awarded to the speaker who has shown the most initiative and elevates in the preparation of the speech...