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...constitutional right to compel hoarders to report and surrender their gold. Reason : "The right of the Government to take private property of any kind when it is deemed necessary by the appropriate authority for the public good." He ruled, nevertheless, that the order to surrender gold was technically invalid because under the Emergency Banking Act it should have been signed by the Secretary of the Treasury rather than the President, gave the Government 20 days to appeal...
...German Press explained elaborately how to vote. There is only one circle at the top of the ballot-the Nazi circle. The thing to do is to put a cross in that circle since "anyone failing to do so will simply forfeit his vote. His ballot will be declared invalid...
...sine die. Sir John Simon, after telephoning Prime Minister MacDonald, seemed at first to agree with the Italians but after sharp debate Mr. Davis and M. Paul Boncour won their points. Conference President Arthur Henderson was authorized to send Germany a stiff note scoring her reasons for withdrawal as "invalid." It was decided to resume Conference work, after a brief recess...
Flush was a red cocker spaniel of good breeding whose puppyhood was passed in the pleasant English countryside near Reading. Before he was out of his doggy teens he had tasted the pleasures of love and was a father. Then his owner, Miss Mitford, gave him to her invalid friend, Elizabeth Barrett. In his new mistress's home, on London's genteel Wimpole Street, Flush passed into polite and celibate seclusion. Though not by nature a lapdog, Flush sacrificed his roaming instincts and became a devoted stay-at-home, never stirring from Miss Barrett's room except...
When Poetess Barrett eloped with Mr. Browning, Flush naturally went along. He enjoyed Italy as much as they did. In a land where nobody thought of kidnapping dogs, with a mistress who had ceased to be an invalid in becoming a wife, Flush led an unrestrained and roving life, made up for many a lost love-affair. With the Brownings he visited England and Wimpole Street once again, but he was glad to get back to Italy, to spend his old age in the southern sun and to die in peace by his beloved mistress's side...