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...encouragement to the patriotic spirit of the times, the production closes with a copper-tinted ballet entitled What's On The Penny, reminding the audience that "E Pluribus Unum . . . isn't on the peso, isn't on the lira, isn't on the franc...
...show its character. In a series of decrees Chief of State Pétain barred all non-Frenchmen (i.e., Jews) from holding Government positions, "invited" industry to send employed farmers back to their fields and to create collective organizations for housing and feeding workers, spoke of pegging the franc to the dollar instead of the pound (43 to the dollar).* Said...
...This was in the nature of a hopeful gesture. In actuality, the franc is now pegged to the mark...
Westminster College (enrollment: 317), an old Presbyterian institution, is politically-conscious beyond all proportion to its size. Its president is Dr. Franc Lewis ("Bullet") McCluer, a 1932 Presidential elector for Franklin Roosevelt. Since last fall he has welcomed to the college as speakers Republican Chairman John Hamilton, two Presidential hopefuls-James A. Farley and Paul V. McNutt. Also scheduled to speak there are Candidates Thomas Dewey, Robert A. Taft...
...coppers, they got gloriously drunk and ran off. One way to tempt them back was for First Officer W. L. Garner to perform his amateur conjuring tricks. On Christmas night, with the dam nearing completion, Conjurer Garner, performing in the glare of truck headlights, made a Belgian five-franc piece disappear from the hand of a small native girl. She let out a piercing scream, her arm became completely stiff, and the natives grew menacing. "She knows the money is inside her arm," grunted the native chief. "Makes her sick." Conjurer Garner hastily improvised a new trick: extracted the coin...