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SWITZERLAND may become the first nation to return to a partial gold standard. With more gold than is needed to back their currency 100%, the prosperous Swiss will experiment by minting gold francs in 25 fr. ($5.83) and 50 fr. ($11.66) denominations, will start off by issuing 50 to 100 million francs worth of gold coins...
...slang for the bombardier-observer who runs the radar and is responsible for putting the A-bomb on target) of each crew withdrew to calculate- his course and study the radar pictures of his plane's target so he would be able to recognize the target by radar fr...
Haring's award is one made annually by the Academy of American Franciscan History in memory of Fr. Junipero Serra, a missionary to southern California. Past recipients of the award are Sumner Wells, ex-United States Under-Secretary of State, and Gabriela Mistral, the Chilean poet...
...collegiate affiliation. A casual remark, such as, "When I was at Harvard the subway ran from Cambridge to Boston in seven minutes," is totally useless. It is impossible to minimize the effect of the word "Harvard" on alien ears. Casual reference will be regarded as a sly way fr one to get across his background...
...American citizen [TIME, May 4], we can all condone the action of Judge J. Francis McLaughlin in insisting on Plywacki's taking the oath of citizenship before God. Truly this country had been founded by men of God, through God and for God's people . . . (REV.) FR. DANIEL D. DRISCOLL...