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Last week Son Sherman was involved in the sort of fight that would have pleased his hard-hitting Yankee forbears. His Republican was accused of hoarding gold???$94,860. Secretary of the Treasury Morgenthau filed petition in Boston to collect double from the publishing company?...
...longer brings in enough to buy what she must purchase abroad to feed her people and her factories. There would be one way out if she could get fresh credit?but she has scuttled her credit. There would be another way out if she could export foreign exchange or gold???but the gold cover behind German marks has fallen to less than 2% or "scarcely till money'' in the Reichsbank, which is frantically short of foreign exchange...
Events beyond any one man's control which made this Conservative victory possible included the Labor Cabinet's split, the Naval mutiny and sterling's slide off gold???but it was the Conservative Party machine, reorganized, conciliated within itself and tuned up by Neville Chamberlain which all over England turned the Labor enemy's defeat into a rout. That rout was the reason why the 1932-33 Budget of His Majesty's Exchequer was presented to the House of Commons last week by Rt. Hon. Arthur Neville Chamberlain as Chancellor...
...works all day and reads all night in law and literature. His garden abuts upon a golf course; but on Sunday (summer) afternoons he weeds, unperturbed by the passing of derisive foursomes. He is an author of the truest quality and his voice?a voice of liquid gold???is lent to every civic cause. He is a trades unionist in principle and practice but believes in the open shop. He is a fighting pacifist. He is the only man of whom the Encyclopedia Britannica reversed its opinion completely within a decade. General Pershing said of him: 'He has made possible...
Some 400 miles east of Aden, on the coast of the Arabian Sea, a Commander Crauford of the British Navy found, he said, the lost city of Ophir, whence Solomon's navy fetched home 450 talents of gold??? II CHRONICLES VIII...