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...tiniest type on inside pages, loyal Dutch newsorgans printed last week a one-sentence despatch from Sweden...
From the Bureau of Engraving & Printing to the great Federal Reserve Banks throughout the land, from the Federal Reserve Banks down to the tiniest of local banks have lately been moving hundreds of thousands of what looked like shoeboxes, neatly wrapped. But no shoes were ever so well guarded with firearms, were ever so eagerly received by bank tellers. All the boxes contained money-crisp new paper currency which the U. S. had, over a two-year period, manufactured to substitute for the bills now in circulation. For the first time in 66 years the U. S. was changing...
...Massachusetts laws can only give a B. A. degree. An ambassador should certainly be honored with not less than an LL.D. So Clark University, which is also in Worcester, was glad to help Assumption, give the degree, share the day's festivities.* Assumption College is perhaps the tiniest and purest center of classicism in the U. S. Here are taught the Greek of Homer, Plato, Sophocles; the Latin of Virgil, Horace, Augustine; the French of Racine and Bossuet; the English of Shakespeare. For those who wish there is law, medicine. Although not stressed, science and modern languages...
...another day His Majesty had an opportunity to climb aboard the Nina and say: "I am the King of Spain," to which young Elihu Root Jr. of Manhattan replied: "We had recognized Your Majesty." Nina, tiniest of all the yachts and first to finish in the race from New York to Santander, won the Queen's cup for boats of less than 55 feet waterline length. She had crossed the Atlantic in 24 days. Said her skipper. Paul Hammond: "We carried all the sail we could, but we did not drive the yacht and we shortened sail whenever the weather...
From the Lesser to the Greater Antilles the flyer took the tiniest hop of his trip. San Juan, Porto Rico was only 90 miles away. Col. Lindbergh doubled the distance by flying out of his way in a sharp arc to give natives of St. Croix Island a glimpse of him in passing. At San Juan he had three notable experiences. The first was an orderly and properly policed landing. The propensities of crowds on three continents to smash police lines wherever formed around a Lindbergh terminal was checked in Porto Rico. Six hundred native police, local militia...