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...management intends to continue with last year's method of serving the midnight supper. In order to avoid confusion resulting from everyone crowding in to eat at the same time, each couple on entering the building, will be given a supper card on which will be stamped the exact hour at which they are to go in for supper...
...well below the point which calls for an export of gold from London to New York. It is expected that Britannia will draw upon credits of $100,000,000 and $200,000,000 respectively, at her disposal with J. P. Morgan & Co. and the Federal Reserve Bank, to avoid an actual gold shipment...
...house he had been able to give her, St. Peter renewed the lease on their old abode and retained as his study the chilly, inconvenient third-floor cubicle that had served him for years. He was a tolerant man but a desire was growing upon him to avoid his family, to be alone and do nothing. Their solicitude stifled him. His Jewish son-in-law's florid devotion to the memory of Tom Outland-whom he had never known but whose inventions, willed to Rosamond St. Peter, had made him rich-was an affront to which bt. Peter could...
...Federal Reserve rates, news from London announced a cut in the Bank of England rate from 4%% to 4%. The rates of the Reserve Bank of New York and the Bank of England are made cooperatively in order that the British rate may always be slightly higher and thus avoid heavy gold exports to this country. New York Reserve rate is now 3%%, and a rise to 4% would consequently threaten the British gold supply and the sterling gold standard...
Without judging the rights and wrongs of the struggle, one cannot avoid some sympathy with the desert chieftain who is putting up a gallant fight against the French military machine. The loss of Asdir, the Riffian capitol, was hailed last week by the French press as the definitive beginning of Abd-el-Krim's downfall. His cause, of course, was doomed as soon as the French began to take the rebellion seriously but newspaper readers will be sorry to see him disappear from the day's news, if only because, as this latest playfulness with his minister shows, he does...