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Last week pressure once more hit the pound. Bear speculators on the Continent, tasting blood from their successful mauling of the dollar, turned once more to sterling. The pound gradually receded from 85 francs to 83¾ with the stanch British bolstering it every time it dropped a sou. Then came a day when the pound dropped and the British sold francs, again and again, 10,000,000 at a time-and still the pound dropped. In two days trading the pound fell two more francs...
...Forest Hills, the stanch disinclination of a slim British Sunday-school teacher to play on Sunday, and four days of rain, had delayed the tournament a full week. When sturdy Helen Jacobs, whose muscles were as solid as her opponent's convictions, finally took the court against Dorothy Round, who had beaten her twice in England and even won a set from Helen Wills, the slow moist turf made a perfect surface for the slow, sly Jacobs chops. Her victory, 6-4, 5-7, 5-2, set the stage for a final that promised to be boringly familiar. Even...
...loading points to check in the cattle. We have a profit of $6 or $7 a head on those cattle. We have sold them to feeders in the corn belt." Ronald was released on $25,000 bond, but the State bank commissioner ordered the three Finney banks closed. Stanch old Warren Finney promptly marched to the State House, saw Governor Landon, declared: "I am not going to let that [Emporia] bank be closed. I have run it for 20 years. The depositors are all my friends. I have the cash and the property to guarantee every one of them...
Privates in the German Army now have to salute officers in the Nazi Storm Troops, mostly small-time politicians. Little by little Chancellor Hitler is trying to Nazify the Army and win its idolized leader General Werner von Blomberg away from his stanch loyalty to President von Hindenburg, his aloof attitude toward politics. Last week General von Blomberg as Reichswehr (Army) Minister issued an order which warmed Nazi cockles, a definitely anti-Semitic order. "In future any member of the Reichswehr desirous of marrying," he decreed, "must submit evidence that his proposed bride is Aryan that none of her four...
Thus Standard Oil is without a Moffett for the first time in more than half a century. Cause of the break as oil men knew was far deeper than the reasons given. Mr. Moffett, friend of Franklin Roosevelt since Wartime days, a stanch supporter of his for the presidency and in the New Deal, has urged the Administration to take a hand in the oil industry, force upon it a code with teeth to regulate prices and production. On this point he has been long at odds with Mr. Teagle and Standard's Chairman W. S. Parish (he first...