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Last week, for the first time since September 1934, gold was shipped from the U. S. to Europe. Stout little kegs containing $20,600,000 worth of yellow metal were headed up in the Assay Office in Manhattan, delivered to ships bound for France and The Netherlands. A reversal of the movement that has added $2,700,000,000 to U. S. gold stocks since the dollar was devalued two years ago, the shipments were caused by the dollar's recent weakness in international exchange...
...visitors, has no friends who live permanently in Rome, carries on a wide correspondence, writing letters that are as polished as his published works. He admires Proust, reads Jacques Maritain, is interested in Spengler, Freud, Hindu philosophy, occasionally passes days without speaking to anyone except hotel employes. Slightly stout, he wears sedate dark clothes, black ties, might be taken for a prosperous English banker except for his dark complexion and intense black eyes...
Sixty million years ago-the dawn of their Age-Titanoides was the biggest of mammals, about the size of a polar bear. Stout, thick-legged, big-tailed, weighing half a ton, probably a fine swimmer, Titanoides liked swamps, crushed lush water plants in his none too capable teeth. Prior to 1932 the only evidence of him was a single jawbone. Then Bryan Patterson of the Field Museum found three skeletons, two fragmentary, one almost complete, near Grand Junction, Colo. The excellent specimen put on show in Chicago last week is the only one of Titanoides visible...
...Stout Curzon friends deny that he ever said any such thing but legend is a sturdy oak. Legend also says that in this room Sir Edward Grey worked all one night in 1914 and then at dawn, stepping to the window as London's street lights were being extinguished, cut this gem: "Lights are going out all over Europe. We shall not see them lighted again in our time...
...Commons fortnight ago the Prime Minister was never in danger because his Conservative Party held an absolute majority and not even Stanley Baldwin's worst enemies ever predicted that he, as the engineer of the Tory political machine, could suffer a backfire of moral indignation from its stout innards. Not being his own Foreign Secretary, Mr. Baldwin could and did make a scapegoat of Sir Samuel Hoare. After that he stated the future Ethiopian policy of His Majesty's Government in terms so ambiguous that even this week new Foreign Secretary Anthony Eden had not yet made them...