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...announced a step no other country in the world dare take. The stamping machines in the French mint had been started and were striking out gold "Louis," 100-franc gold pieces slightly smaller than a U. S. quarter. Not since the War has a Frenchman been able to poke a 100-franc bill at the Treasury cashier and get a "Louis."* All France tingled with pride as Premier Flandin categorically declared: "The coining is being hurried and gold coins will be put into circulation with all speed. By the end of this year 1,200,000,000 francs will have...
This defense, however, threw the Yale attack off balance even though the Elis are faster skaters. It was helped a great deal by Hovenanian, Moseley, and Ford, who have a happy faculty of being able to poke the puck out from under the Blue sticks...
...apparently made full use of all available official documents in the Lindbergh case in preparing her pamphlet, which was written in 1932, long before Hauptmann was arrested, Mrs. Spencer laughingly told reporters: "The whole thing was a satire, written and dictated by me for my own amusement merely to poke fun at the asininity of our police and court system as a whole. . . . As to the charge of the prosecutor that it was mailed to every one on the jury panel, all I can say is that I never heard of the panel. I didn't even know they...
...commonly accepted as harbingers of winter. In both cases radical leaders were quick to capitalize on hunger and cold. Yet the Administration in Washington refused to be hustled into any determination of its relief plans to combat this form of discontent. Administrator Hopkins went out of his way to poke fun at Republican Ogden Mills who had declared in a campaign speech that there would be 20,000,000 people on relief by January...
...money from you. Methodism, vised by its geographical Bishop, promised to repay the money owed you. Methodism, in the particular locality which initially owes you, whines its inability to pay its honest debts. Yet, this same sunny California brand of Methodism finds ways to yearly send $65,000 to poke their noses into the business of foreigners-of Chinamen alone, and, if you please, of Chinamen only in Foochow, In that...