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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Secretary of the Treasury? Last week Acting Secretary of the Treasury Morgenthau cleaned up the legal debris by issuing a new order calling in gold. More drastic than the President's, it carried no exemption for holders of $100 or less; fixed an additional penalty for evasion at twice the amount of gold held. "There is several million around in the banks and we are going after it." declared Mr. Morgenthau. "We mean business."* But more important than extracting gold from private pockets last week was the question of recovering $3,600,000,000 in gold now owned...
...which brings her half a million a year, her celebrated zoo and outdoor opera, her beer, her famed families of Longworths and Tafts. Prouder still was she last week. Cincinnati had done for the fifth time what no other U. S. city of comparable size (452.000 pop.) had done twice in succession-reinaugurated a reform municipal government. And Cincinnati was that almost equally rare big town which closed its books Dec. 31, 1933 without a deficit...
...issue you twice used the word ''rolphing" to designate what formerly was called lynching. I appreciate your prompt adoption of my suggestion...
...Oxenham, who lost his sight in the War, learned to play golf two years ago when a doctor friend thrust a club into his hands, told him what to do. He made that first hole in bogey. Now he plays twice a week, takes his chauffeur as caddie. He explains...
...leaves as fragments of an ancient Greek biblical text. He asked for more. The St. Catherine monks showed him some, refused to part with them. Scholar Tischendorf took home what he had, published it as the Codex Friderico-Augustanus for his patron, King Frederick Augustus of Saxony. He returned twice to Sinai, the second time under the patronage of Tsar Alexander II Oi Russia. He was shown more manuscript, including the Epistle of Barnabas which was not previously known to exist in Greek. This he spent a whole night frantically copying, exclaiming, "It is a crime to sleep!" Before long...