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...Only one joker may interrupt this swap: If "any exceptionally large change" is made in the relative value of U. S. and French currency, either nation may call off the entire agreement within 30 days...
This, if taken at face value, might presage a most radical socio-economic New Deal. Japanese businessmen hoped they found a possible joker favoring the status quo. The declaration, having first harshly pledged drastic changes, then softly added, "The Government will avoid needless haste...
Died. William Horace de Vere ("Old King Cole") Cole, 53, Great Britain's No. 1 practical joker, brother-in-law of Chancellor of the Exchequer Rt. Hon. Neville Chamberlain; in Honfleur, France. Most famous of his 95 pranks were the results of skillful impersonation: 1) when a student at Cambridge, he posed as the Sultan of Zanzibar, had dignitaries escort him through the University, give him a champagne dinner; 2) in 1908, as a well-known Indian potentate, he asked to see the Dreadnaught, newest of battleships, then surrounded in official secrecy. The naval officials put on full regalia...
...Call Home the Heart (1932) might get through several hands of A Stone Came Rotting without thinking they were sitting in on anything more antisocial than a game of hearts. But sooner or later they will realize that Author Burke's pastoral pack has a dialectic joker in it. A sequel to her first book, A Stone Came Rolling reintroduces Ishma, the hillbilly Judith; her physical but saintly husband Britt, et al. In tone and texture a kind of reincarnation of the works of Gene Stratton Porter, with Rose O'Neill and Fannie Hurst thrown in, A Stone...
After the most frantic sleuthing on the part of the victim whose mail was so grossly polluted, the identity of the crude practical joker was brought to light. There will be some sort of retaliation; of that there is no doubt, but the inmates of the entry shudder to think in what form it will appear...