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...closing and locking Caja de Conversion (the Treasury exchange office where gold and silver may be had for Argentine paper money). Technically this order did not "suspend" gold payments, merely made them impossible. Ordinarily such a step would mean, at the very least, that Argentina was about to abandon the gold standard. Yet the gold coverage of Argentine currency issued by the Nacional Bank stood at 82% last week. Canny bankers discounted the President's amazing order as the latest greatest Irigoyen eccentricity. Argentine bonds and currency took a rapid dip on the Buenos Aires exchange, quickly recovered. In Argentina...
...Widow first appeared in Manhattan in 1907, was last revived in 1921. The Widow of the present revival is a comely Dutchwoman, Beppie de Vries, who sings Franz Lehar's score considerably better than the rest of the cast and wheels through the famed waltz with the requisite abandon...
...motorized German shock troops leaving Aachen at 8 p. m. could be at Brussels at 5 a. m. the next day without having met Belgian troops. . . . The population as a whole has behaved well except youths, who, apparently incited by their schoolmasters, resorted to tricks that impelled me to abandon riding or marching through the streets...
...stop bickering, adjourn and stay adjourned," was loudly denounced by Senator Borah. Cried the Idaho Senator: ". . . Utterly false and malicious statement! Who is this Babson? A man serving special interests, who has no responsibility, who could not carry a precinct and yet who dares tell Senators to abandon their duty...
...advertisement appeared in which an entrancing female was made to say, "Blow some my way," it seemed the peak in risque outspokenness had been attained. But now the landscape is plastered, advertising sections of magazines and newspapers are fat, with advertisements of women and girls smoking cigarets with utmost abandon...