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...included in these figures.) Southern Irishmen dwell under a government picturesquely and adroitly named The Irish Free State. They are vexed because it "is not Irish, is not free and is not a state."* They vent their spleen by constantly bedeviling the British Government. Last week the British mint refused to quote prices for minting a new series of Irish Free State coins from which the Irish designers had omitted the head of the King Emperor George V. which appears on all British and Dominion currency. The British mint authorities, suave, intimated that it might be difficult to circulate...
...fortitude they might. For three weeks they had been besieged in the walled city of Wuchang. Super-Tuchun Chang Kaishek, the Cantonese Communist War Lord had ringed them round with a besieging army of 100,000 mercenaries. He demanded the surrender of the city, its arsenals, its ironworks, its mint. Terrified, the civil inhabitants would have acquiesced, surrendered. They were prevented from surrendering their own city by the military garrison left behind by Super Tuchun Wu Pei-fu, as he retreated before Chang Kai-shek (TIME...
...Democratic primary was handled neatly by onetime Director of the Mint Raymond T. Baker (see below). The score: Mr. Baker, 4,363; P. A. McGarren...
Another Life Saver. When cigarets taste nasty, when the bouquet of gin lingers, when gum drops cloy-it is soothing to champ at a hard mint tablet. Neither Life Savers Inc. nor other makers of hard candy lozenges flavored with aromatic oils-mint, cloves, pepper-have stressed in their advertising those demands for their products. None the less, they have profited therefrom, Life Savers Inc. most of all. This company is even listed on the Manhattan Stock Exchange. It has 8,000 jobbers and dealers; it makes fruit lozenges, which lack the famed Life Saver "hOle";* and shortly it will...
...Mint, Wint-O-Green, ClOve, Cinn-O-mon, LicOrice...