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...morning of Halloween, a grizzled old (73) French-Canadian prospector named Francois Xavier Gallant borrowed a friend's automobile, drove to Creighton (pop. 2,000), got busy with ax and compass. As the sun went down, he walked into the recorder's office, registered eight mining claims to 320 acres of land. Part of it was dotted with Creighton houses...
...clerk coughed politely and said they were full up. The old mari turned away. "I been saving a year for this trip," he said, "and I did kinda want to stay where 'H. A. W.'* put up." Washington soon found out why Frank Edward Gimlett, 75, oldtime prospector from Salida, Colo., was in town. Said he: "I came here to find out what we are going to use for money." If necessary, he vowed, he would visit every member of Congress to discover why he was getting greenbacks instead of gold coin for the metal he mined. Opening...
...lady friend who married the other fellow," he explained. "There's two gold coins that F. D. R. isn't going to get." Money, a mysterious thing to most folks, has no secrets from Prospector Gimlett. Said...
...later Prospector Gimlett had all the backing a man could ask for. Federal Reserve Board Chairman Marriner S. Eccles recommended to Congress and the Administration a succinct and vigorous plan for revising U. S. fiscal and monetary policies. The plan carried the unanimous support of the board's members. It set a precedent. Never before in its 26-year history had the board come out openly and firmly for specific fiscal legislation...
...income of his 25 newspapers (now 17) and other properties, the profits of the mines he had inherited from his prospector father, were no longer big enough to pay the interest on their debts and his. By 1939 he was in hock to the banks, and employed as editorial director of his own newspapers at a yearly salary of $100,000. For Mr. Hearst, that was chicken feed...