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...abruptly forbidding a payment of 100,000,000 marks ($23,700,000) from the German Treasury to the Prussian Treasury, a payment on which Prussia had counted as indispensable to balancing her budget. Particularly excited by the Chancellor's drastic move were the South German states, fiercely jealous of their rights in the German family...
Cash Register? Two years ago, when the Young Plan was supposed to have "taken Reparations out of politics." BIZ was set up as the "Cash Register of German Reparations"-the bank through which German payments would be distributed to the Allies (TIME, May 26, 1930) Jealous of their own power, certain central bank governors insisted at the time that BIZ must not become a world bank-but those days seem gone forever...
...Jozippie Paucci, vaudeville midget (height 37 in.); and Margaret Lane, diving beauty (height 5 ft. 8 in.), his estranged wife: a daughter; in Memphis. Weight: 5 Ib. 11 oz. Said Baroness Paucci: "Yes, I love my husband. . . . That's why I married him. . . . We parted because we were jealous. . . . Women were always picking him up and telling him how cute...
...Kansas City, Norman D. Hunt, deaf mute, was jealous of the attentions which his friend, Louis Coleman, deaf, showed his wife. Suspicious, he went to Louis Coleman and demanded in sign language: "Where were you at noon today?" "None of your business!" Coleman signalled back. Pulling a pistol, Deaf Mute Hunt shot Louis Coleman dead, marched to a police station, pushed a note across the sergeant's desk: "I shot a man on Monroe Street, [signed] Norman D. Hunt...
...until after he met up with Aldous Huxley, Robert Graves. Richard Hughes and Edmund Blunden at Oxford that his literary talent became widely recognized. A sometime theatrical cartoonist, ballad singer, actor, broadcaster, teacher, he now devotes all his time to writing. Other books: Dewer Rides, The Jealous Ghost, The English Captain, The Garden...