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...Machado seemed calm, his entourage nervous. At 3:32 p. m. the amphibian roared away. That evening it came down in the lee of Andros Island in the Bahamas. The refugees spent the night aboard, next day flying on to Nassau. There Machado, haggard in his crumpled white linen suit (he had had no time to pack even a suitcase), led his party to the sumptuous, somnolent Royal Victoria Hotel. He ordered tea, whiskey, a bath and a tailor. "I am glad I am with English people," he said. "England understands trouble and my relations with England were always good...
...Craned their necks to peer at Professor Albert Einstein who walked into the distinguished strangers' gallery wearing a white linen suit while his friend, Commander Oliver Locker-Lampson M. P., flayed Hitlerite persecution of Jews, offered a bill to extend to Jewish refugees greater facilities for obtaining British citizenship...
...Farrar, who speaks with a strong Southern accent and is very fond of The Nation. You can tell that there are mice inside when you stand on the front stoop of No. 5825 Drexel Boulevard. But you get used to the smell. Everything is very clean. In immaculate white linen dress Dr. Slye sits behind a rolltop steel desk littered with papers. Dolly, her fat bull terrier bitch (currently ill), wanders in & out. In the next room and upstairs and downstairs are rows and rows of small cages, piled one on top of the other, looking something like beehives...
...Midland led the London race with resources of $2,200,000,000. Second was Lloyds with $2,000,000,000. But Barclays Bank lays claim to "world's biggest" because its statements do not include the resources of its controlled Union Bank of Manchester and British Linen Bank (with combined deposits of nearly $240,000.000), nor its vast system of foreign subsidiaries and affiliates. A 249-page handbook is required to list its 2.435 branches in the British Isles, its hundreds of offices scattered through Europe, Africa, the Near East, the West Indies. After the name...
Brokers in linen jackets milled curiously around the four brand new rings of the Commodity Exchange-rubber, silk, hides, metals (copper, silver and tin). They eyed the clock nervously but President Jerome Lewine cut short the fanfare at 10 a. m. sharp, clanged the gong. A mighty roar went up from the silver post. To Broker Edwin Troetchell went the honor of first sale: 25,000 oz. of silver to Broker Clarence Lovatt at 37.75? an ounce...