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...tight spot. A majority may believe that it would be less serious for the U. S. to face the economic upset caused by upholding the gold clauses than to establish a precedent that may in future make all contracts into scraps of paper to be blown hither & thither by any political wind. But if the Court should decide to uphold the gold clauses, the reaction ot the country against the Court would be indeed serious. In the heat of partisanship a Constitutional Amendment might be passed that would vitally impair the Court's usefulness. The Justices were not ignorant...
...Jugoslavia, all the U. S. was much more interested in the new Marshal of the Court appointed last week, Dr. Slavko Y. F. Grouitch, longtime Minister to Washington. In 1901 handsome Dr. Grouitch was Serbian Secretary at the Legation in Athens. Thither went the Gibson-Girlish Miss Mabel G. Dunlop of Clarksburg, W. Va. to study archeology. She met and married Dr. Grouitch...
This summer an employe of a U.S. cosmetics company, digging for betonite near Morden, Man., struck fossils. Paleontologist C.M. Sternberg of Ottawa's National Museum rushed thither, exhumed two 35-ft. mosasaur skeletons, declared them the best of the genus ever found in Canada...
...motive of wanton pomp or curiosity was leading President Roosevelt thither. When President Hoover visited St. Croix, St. Thomas and St. John in 1931, he shocked their inhabitants by calling their domicile an "effective poorhouse." President Roosevelt has already expressed his intention of making the three little Virgins into a New Deal archipelago...
...Century the Picts. shrinking into their lairs from the wind that blows off the Firth of Tay from the North Sea, called the place Kilrymont or Muckross. Later St. Regulus, the Bishop of Patras in Achaea, was guided thither bearing the relics of St. Andrew. Angus. King of the Picts, gave the prelate a duney tract known as the Boar Chase, and the pious Bishop promptly changed its name to St. Andrews. For centuries wind-bitten shepherds had knocked bits of stone about the hummocks with crooked staves in a dour and solitary game called golf, but they...