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...final joker is the lack of money available to the State Department for financing foreign commodity buying. With the Import-Export Bank holding a bare minimum of funds, any amount of relief appropriations would have to run a Congressional gauntlet. An economy-minded Republican Capitol Hill can be expected to cut to ribbons any such grant, especially since it is foreseen that some of the nations will have to receive outright gifts...
...Traditionally the King's Champion rode on horseback into the coronation banquet hall, flung down a gauntlet, challenged anyone to challenge the new king's right to the throne. No one ever has. The ceremony was last enacted at the coronation of William...
...last week 1,870 of the 5,000 had successfully run the gauntlet, and 550 were already in training. Half of these clerical shock troops have had no more than a primary education. One was a coal miner, another a waiter, a third a warehouse clerk. By 1949 the Church of England hopes to have made 2,000 of them into clergymen, at a cost...
...serious competition for the Crimson in its own field has appeared since the Harvard Daily News threw down the gauntlet in the fall of 1894. The incumbent journalists affected to look down their noses at the upstarts, but were effectively put on their mettle by a keen rivalry that was not always bare-faced and above board. Unethical wire-tapping and signs of yellow journalism on the part of the News, however, showed up the following fall when the challengers were blighted by the failure of their subscription drive...
...much as Masaryk. In their official Journal, delegates found a familiar little list of items absentmindedly left behind in their various London meeting places: two keys, two spectacle cases (empty), one Elizabeth Arden lipstick, one entrance pass No. 10156, two pipes, one bracelet, one book titled Miami, one brown gauntlet glove, three pen tops, one copy of Hymns Ancient and Modern...