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...autocrats of the Cocos mint their own bone money (metal coins, they believe, might cause their subjects to become money mad), make and administer their own laws, order executions (by drowning at sea), give each native who marries a house as wedding present. Each king has provided a bronze bust of himself for the royal gallery, each has maintained an unfailing cellar of matured Scotch whiskey in the royal "palace" (a sprawling teak-and-tile mansion...
Actress Taylor plays a middleaged, down-at-heel former Southern belle, long ago deserted by her husband, and living with her feckless dreamer of a son (Eddie Dowling) and shy, scared, crippled daughter (Julie Haydon) in a St. Louis alley. Nagging, grandiloquizing about her mint-julepy, porticoed youth, absurd in her foolishness, pathetic in her pretensions, she wants passionately to get her daughter married, demands endlessly that her son bring "gentlemen callers" to the house. At length he brings one-a gum-chewing extrovert who, though touched by the girl's plight, counts the minutes till he can escape...
...coins-261,064 of them-had piled up all last year in the pyx box*-one coin from each batch (or part thereof) of 2,000 silver coins delivered from the coining room to the superintendent of all U.S. mints during the year. The Assay Commission (eleven Presidential civilian appointees, three ex-officio members), using the official mint weights, went to work, testing, weighing, counting. To nobody's surprise, the commission found the U.S.'s 1944 coinage sound...
...suggestion of Treasury Secretary Alexander Hamilton, instituted the custom in 1792. Only once has a ripple of discord disturbed the ceremony. In 1801 the trial had to be postponed after the seat of government was moved from Philadelphia to Washington. At this unseemly break in an established tradition, Mint Director Elias Boudinot wrote indignantly to President John Adams, protesting that public confidence in the federal coinage was being undermined...
...long, metal-bound walnut chest named for the chest which once reposed in Westminster Abbey's Chapel of the Pyx, now rests in England's Mint, where newly minted British coins are deposited for Britain's annual coinage-testing: the Trial...