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...profit is this: When American citizens went to their banks and patriotically deposited their gold and their gold certificates last March, the banks promptly turned over the metal itself to the Federal Reserve Banks, which in turn deposited it in the Treasury of the United States and received a receipt. If that gold has increased in value, and it has gone up already by nearly fifty per cent, then to whom does the profit belong...
Technically it belongs today to every American citizen who deposited his gold with his bank, but hardly anybody asked for a receipt and it would be difficult to find out just who deposited gold and gold certificates. Also it would be regarded as unfair to pay a profit to those who by accident happened to possess gold certificates in March, while the rest of the country used other legal tender currency...
...Government" of Russia (he could not promise for the Party headed by Josef Stalin) to "refrain" in the most scrupulous manner from any interference in U. S. affairs; to "restrain" from such interference "all organizations of the Soviet Government or under its direct or indirect control, including organizations in receipt of any financial assistance from it"; to refuse to harbor on Russian soil any group "which makes claim to be the Government of or makes any attempt on the territorial integrity of the United States...
International's beat is verified by the time of receipt of the bulletins of I. N. S., U. P. and A. P. in newspaper offices using all of the services such as the Des Moines Register & Tribune, Denver Post and Los Angeles Herald-Express, or papers using I. N. S. and one of the other services, such as Kansas City Star, Chicago American, St. Louis Star, Boston American, Minneapolis Star, Camden Courier-Post, and many others...
...long career as purveyor of jewels by appointment to the most majestic Washington society. Into the Gait store the great ladies of U. S. history were wont to drop and carry off valuable jewels-as much as $200,000 worth at a time-without so much as signing a receipt for them. There wealthy hostesses picked out $20 souvenirs to give their guests. When Norman Gait died in 1908 his widow inherited the store. She watched over it as carefully as she watched over her second husband's dearest institution, the League of Nations. When Depression hit the great...