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Characters: Patriarch Jeeter Lester (Henry Hull), a bent, rickety, boastful, obscene, stealing, lying scion of an old family who has discovered that semi-starvation is the only penalty for doing nothing; his wife Ada (Margaret Wycherly), mother of 16 of whom 13 have forgotten her; her unmanageable harelipped daughter Ellie...
"I ... take thee ... for my lawful wife/husband, to have and to hold from this day forward, for better, for worse, for richer, for poorer, in sickness and in health, until death do us part. . . ."
The profit arises from the fact that gold has always been valued at $20.67 an ounce; but if the amount of gold content in every dollar is reduced by one-third and yet the unit of value is called a dollar, then less gold will be used for every dollar...
There are many opportunities for over-sentimentality but fortunately director Ralph Murphy has charted the course of his feamy schooner around these perils. The plot is somewhat standard: Papa Hoffman, Americanized German, whose name has for years been synonymous with the best of beer, sends his sons to France to...
Even on March 8 (before gold-heavy U. S. citizens, corporations and banks began their spectacular rush to redeposit the metal with the Federal Reserve last week) every U. S. Federal Reserve note still more than had its legal gold cover of 40%. With gold flooding in. U. S. citizens...