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...President Roosevelt issued another order requiring every possessor of gold to register his holdings with the Treasury before Sept. 18. Those who failed to do so were also to be punished by ten years imprisonment, $10,000 fine...
Alma Jacobsen, whose letter is printed in Aug. 21, TIME, must have been extremely unfortunate in her experiences; or the possessor of a "chip on the shoulder," which, quite naturally, brings misfortune in her wake. A few corrections should be made upon her letter...
Died. Sir John Reeves Ellerman, 71, shipping tycoon, reputed possessor of Great Britain's largest fortune (circa $140,000,000); in Dieppe, France. To his vast shipping enterprises he added real estate and publishing, at one time owned a string of newspapers and smartcharts, including London's Sphere, Sketch, Tatler. Hardly more than a name to the average Briton, he shunned publicity and public places, shooed away photographers, lived in a simplicity suggesting stinginess, occupied but one inch of space in Who's Who. He stealthily gave fat sums to charity, was irked when newshawks got wind...
...encircled the colossal pile, and after each succeeding shower there was blinding darkness all around. Rain washed the wide expanse of windows intermittently and the wind in the chimneys moaned and shrilled like some dying titan. It was a fit night for ghoulish purposes, unthinkable horrors that drive the possessor slowly mad. In the cavernous vault the noise of thunder rolled and broke with the insistence of throbbing tom-toms. Somewhere out over the plain of roofs gleaming with water and the trees that tossed their branches in a spasm of agony as if to relieve some obsessing pain...
...come and get it." One person who took Senator Borah's advice last week was Colorado's Charles S. Thomas, 83, onetime (1899-1901) Governor, onetime (1913-21) Senator. To the U. S. District Attorney at Denver, this fiery old Democrat wrote: "I am the owner and possessor of $120 in gold which I have acquired in order to qualify myself for the penitentiary. . . . Being entitled to its retention, I shall not surrender it to the authorities, preferring to use my few remaining years in testing the extent to which the executive power...