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...counterfeits was detected, when a merchant noticed Andrew Jackson's face, which usually appears on a $20, pasted on a $10 bill...
...film begins clumsily. As Bill Budd is impressed from his merchant ship, the "Rights of Man," to serve on Captain Vere's man-of-war, every attempt is made to set the scene for his tragic confrontation with society. Budd cries out, "Good-bye, 'Rights of Man,'" and the second lieutenant angrily but too obviously misinterprets the ambiguity. With ever more pain-staking care, the discontent of the "Avenger's" crew is endlessly thrust before the audience. Master-at-arms Claggart is not yet allowed to be more than a puppet of the director...
...Army Vice Chief of Staff, Minister of Trade and Industry, and Chairman of the Burma Oil Co., Aung Gyi was Ne Win's No. 2 man and heir apparent. The son of a well-to-do Chinese textile merchant and a Burmese woman, he proved himself a canny diplomat both in the 1960 negotiations that fixed Burma's borders with Red China and in last month's talks with Japan that produced $170 million in additional World War II reparations and loans. Despite his insistence that "I have no training in economics," he built a modest army...
...league also went to work on vaudeville producers who featured unshaven Jewish comics and movie producers who portrayed Jews as usurious misers. In its zeal, the league at first sought local censorship ordinances, even tried to have such works as Oliver Twist and The Merchant of Venice removed from school reading programs. Later the league reversed itself and declared: "The Merchant is an accepted classic of world literature. As a work of great artistic quality, it cannot, in a free society, be subject to censorship...
Never Too Late, by Sumner Arthur Long, gives birth to mirth by lending mirth to birth, as fatherhood closes in on a 60-year-old lumber merchant. Paul Ford plays the morose papa-to-be, and the only straight face in the house...