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...could still hoard all the gold they pleased, but Dr. Kung made it treason for Chinese to hold silver which he ordered into the Government's banks. To a nation that has never had any great confidence in paper, the Chinese Government decreed that its paper is legal tender and not redeemable in either silver or gold...
...Tender Mr. Hoover...
Could the magnanimous and constructive engineer who dealt with Huns be given to anger? Could the one man who went between all the loosed war dogs of Europe and kept the trust of all, be unable to hold his own temper? Could the brilliant and tender Quaker who rebuilt human Belgium and France, who rebuilt and re-established the lives of the families of his late enemies, be an angry man? Could the untiring diplomatist and spiritual servant who never let one strand of his delicate relationships between militarists and nationalists and intriguers, drunk warlords and war-led, sadists, sentimentalists...
...president, Charles A. Haskins '36, treasurer, Gernard Piel '36, Business manager, Robert S. Chafee '36, circulation manager, James LeB. Boyle '36, secretary, and John A. Straus '36, Pegasus, were told that no action would be taken by the state in prosecuting the case on condition that the present officers tender their resignation...
...that John O'Hara is well on his way to becoming the voice of the hangover generation that awakened in the grey dawn of 1930. Writing principally of speakeasy, country-club, fairly well-to-do crowds similar to those Fitzgerald wrote about, he presents them as much less tender, much more bitter, much more worried about money, casually frank in their acceptance of the more brutal realities of sexual experiences. And their stories he finds, almost without exception, grim...