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...come when the world can safely abandon its use altogether but it has not yet reached that point. . . . The fears and apprehensions directed to the stability of first one nation and then another have caused . . . large flows of gold to meet exchange demands. . . . Thus a mass of gold dashing hither and yon from one nation to another, seeking maximum safety, has acted like a cannon loose on the deck of the world in a storm...
...bottle will fill up quickly." Norman B. Collins, president of Security Bank and Second Security Bank of Chicago, and his wife were kidnapped in Wilmette (Chicago suburb) by five men in a black sedan who demanded $100,000 ransom. Arguing with their captors as they drove hither & yon, Mr. & Mrs. Collins got the demand down to $5,000. She was released to telephone to Chairman James B. Forgan Jr. of Second Security Bank, while Banker Collins rode on in the black sedan. Banker Collins was later released, failed to say whether or not ransom was paid...
...Vagabond, dozing in his favorite armchair, and pulling peacefully on his favorite briar, watched a bookcase full of forbidding volumes slowly sink into a summer sea, precisely the same sea, in fact, on which the Vagabond had stemmed his way hither and yon in the breezes of August. A scene fished upon his inner eye,--the scene of two vessels, well out to sea, one a stately yacht, glistening with brass and pearly canvas, the other a grim, gray cutter of the revenue fleet. At the same moment a puff of white smoke escaped the muzzle of the signal...
...Assistant Secretary threw himself into his work at Washington. He chummed around with the flying officers, piloted his own plane hither & yon, brought the Army air service up to top-notch efficiency under the five-year plane-building program. When Trubee Davison's college friend and fellow flyer, David Sinton Ingalls, arrived in Washington as President Hoover's Assistant Secretary of the Navy for Aeronautics, there was the spectacle of two able, active young friends competing for Congressional appropriations...
Respect has mingled with curiosity as, through the years since the War, the U. S. public has watched a roundheaded little Princeton professor with thick spectacles travel hither & yon through the world as physician to sick money systems. Princeton has loaned him freely to various nations since 1912, but long before (in 1903), he helped the U. S. Philippine Commission start the islands off on the gold standard. Since then he has probed the problems of Egypt, Mexico, Guatemala, Colombia, Union of South Africa, Chile, Poland, Ecuador, Bolivia, China, Panama and Peru. In 1925 he analyzed the economic ills...