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Dates: during 1930-1939
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MORE complete than any previous volume of Franklin's writings, this compact book contains many hitherto unpublished letters and several selections which have not been widely distributed. The compilers, however, have shown excellent discrimination in their choice of excerpts from this most varied and voluminous literary output...
...Rothschild castle in Austria, the Duke of Windsor cheerily engaged a staff of body servants from local applicants. Strangest post-Abdication event was when the Duke, hitherto notorious as Edward of Wales and as King Edward for his chronic absence from church, suddenly drove in on Sunday to the English Church of Vienna. He chatted at the door with U. S. Minister to Austria George Messersmith & wife, invited them to luncheon, but they had a previous engagement. Then, like abdicated Kaiser Wilhelm II who incessantly takes part in divine service at Doom, abdicated King Edward VIII went to the lectern...
...banking system, where it swells the already swollen credit base. By New Deal law all imported gold and all newly-mined gold has to be sold to the Government, the Treasury paying for the metal with checks drawn on its accounts in the Federal Reserve Banks. Hitherto the Treasury has then replenished its checking accounts by depositing in the Reserve Banks gold certificates against the gold it bought, thus injecting the metal directly into the country's credit system...
This was not to say that no correspondent had succeeded last week in establishing sound news pipelines into the Rothschild Castle, but it was to say that as yet 95% of stories printed about the Duke of Windsor were obvious, blatant fakes. They unmasked to some hitherto naive editors the whole Vienna school of whipped-cream journalism, and (which will prove much more expensive) they unmasked it to the world public as well. Hereafter money is going to be spent getting much nearer to the facts of life in each royal Balkan sty and snuggery...
Pushing across three runs before their opponents realized the game was on, the Eliot House baseball team, in-and-outers all season, downed the hitherto undefeated Kirkland nine, 3-2 yesterday, and climbed into a money position in the final standing. The Deacons, however, annexed the House indoor Championship with a .833 percentage...