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...sitting under a tree with a couple of friends with a mint julep on a hot summer's day is a sin, then send me to hell...
Last week there came from Washington the report of a new attempt about to be made, but in a more novel form. It was represented that Treasury officials have "virtually decided" to mint a new coin, a gold-and-silver dollar. It would be slightly larger than a quarter, of distinctive design, possibly with a gold centre and a silver rim. Banks and merchants are said to have indicated that such a coin would be acceptable, and it would save much Government time and money...
VARIETY?R chard Connell?Mint on, Balch ($2.00). In the columns of every U. S. newspaper, occupying the odd inch at the root of a divorce, or a box, maybe, between finance and mayhem, are items about nameless people who have become news because some extravagance in the comedy of their lives has made them pathetic or some vagary in their afflictions has made them funny. Richard Connell, with one snip of the shears, two strokes of the fountain pen, can transform such items into tales that delight the readers of The Saturday Evening Post, and may afterwards be collected...
...Confederacy which, under his direction, has been rising on the face of Stone Mountain, Ga. (TIME, Aug. 13, 1923; May 26, 1924). Those two proud gentlemen, Generals Lee and Jackson, stand raised among their armies on the mountain's craggy front, half- formed. In the U. S. mint, 5,000,000 half-dollar coins, with Lee and Jackson riding their horses across one side, and an inscription commemorating the valor of Southern arms on the other, await distribution. There are no funds to bring Lee and Jackson from the rock, no funds to distribute the coins which, designed...
...honorable House of Lords by reducing its veto on non-financial legislation to the power of delaying a given bill for two years. The lords have continuously been Conservative, almost to a man; and the present cabinet is hoping to coin their temporary popularity in the Commons into a mint of future strength. The power of the lords is to be positively restored by providing that all bills from which the upper house dissents will be drawn up by a committee of sixty, divided equally between the two houses and shared among the parties according to relative strength. These compromise...