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Last week Messrs. Morgenthau, Bailie and Jones varied their daily routine, tried in vain to discover where the leak might be. Whether or not their dismay at the undiscovered leak was responsible, they kept the RFC gold price at $34.01 for nine successive business days, longer than the price has stayed unchanged at any time since it was first announced. On the theory that the price could not be discovered by wire tapping no Secret Service men were called upon. Earle Bailie was given the job of playing amateur detective...
...leak leaked on. Asked whether any progress had been made in stopping it, Sleuth Bailie cosily replied: "We always make progress...
...belief that the goodwill between the Treasury Department and the Press, built up in the last 15 years, has been seriously impaired. . . ." Well aware was President Roosevelt of the political necessity of keeping on good terms with the Press, of the impossibility of stopping each & every news leak at the Treasury. Next day Secretary Morgenthau realized his mistake when he modified General Order No. 1 so that correspondents could still interview minor officials on matters of fact but reserved for his own office all statements of policy and opinion...
...stores were ruined or missing. Then there was nothing for it but to keep going as long as they could. Luckily in a few days they sighted one of their rival clippers, The Bird of Dawning, hove to and deserted. The skipper had gone crazy, faked a hopeless leak and frightened his crew into the boats. Short-handed as they were, the boat's crew of the Blackganntlet turned to and sailed her home, not knowing till they reached mid-Channel whether they were still in the race or not. When the Channel fog lifted under a driving breeze...
...dexterous beyond compare and with mind that plans, see the completed result in his imagination. He models and commands the method, carries out the procedure, puts the parts into perfect apposition, but God knits the scar. "He sews severed arteries that they may carry their crimson torrent without leak and without hindrance. The delicate nerve must be spliced to give the return of welcome sensation to palsied arm. He sews the viscera so truly that they become watertight. He mends the splintered bone and repairs the lacerated flesh while holding to the skirts of the frightened spirit, lest it should...