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...Bishop Warren Akin Candler of Atlanta, an M-E of the old school, a believer in the status quo, in worship before works, in conservatism. Bishop Candler is, of course, a Dry. His brother, the late Asa Griggs Candler, made a fortune giving the South a substitute for mint juleps and white mule. The substitute was "Coca Cola" and a far greater power for temperance it was -if you should ask Bishop Candler-than ten thousand sermons or revivals. Bishop Candler is for churchmen sticking to church matters and last week, just before Bishop Cannon's Asheville conference...
President Calvin Coolidge figured in the laughs. His name was signed to a letter saying The Nation was a "darb"; his picture was substituted for Benjamin Franklin's in the masthead of the Saturday Evening Post, which was published "in association with the United States mint and N. W. Ayer...
Died. Miss Annie H. Martin, 71, onetime editor of the Carson City News, superintendent of the U. S. mint of Carson City, Nev.; in Carson City...
...were a result of trade between the countries, and should be received. Therefore, Secretary of the Treasury Mellon authorized the Assay office to count, test, weigh the bars, the bankers to sell the bars to the Sub-Treasury for a check in dollar denominations, the Mint to coin the bars into quarter-eagles, half-eagles, eagles, double-eagles. Assay office chemists in the annex to the Sub-Treasury building in Wall Street lit furnaces, uncorked acid bottles, adjusted exquisite balances, burned, corroded, measured, weighed bars of gold. It was standard gold. It was, in fact, new gold-from Siberian mines...
...Passed a bill for the U. S. Mint to strike Lindbergh medals for sale at one dollar each...