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...Bureau of Engraving & Printing worked night and day turning out new gold certificates in denominations from $10,000 to $100,000. These the Treasury would give to the Reserve banks as payment for their gold. Not intended for public circulation, each certificate had a bright yellow back and bore the words "This is to certify that there is on deposit in the Treasury of the United States of America (so many) dollars in gold, payable to bearer on demand as authorized by law." But as the law prohibited the Treasury from paying out gold dollars and as the value...
Shrewd, the Government had counted on Bore Car to disperse the Opposition. Slyly, Government Deputies kept their seats, passed the Constitutional amendment by a sudden snap vote, sent it to the Senate before the napping Opposition woke...
...medal bore his own plump-cheeked, spectacled features in relief. Present, too, were the four asterisks which Dr. Matas inserts at the end of every topic in his medical writings to indicate that the topical "cow has been milked dry." Donor of the Matas Medal is Mike Sam Hart, big-boned, generous New Orleans Jew whose family grew rich in New Orleans public utilities. Mike Hart's late sister, Violet Ida Hart, singer, was long a Matas patient. Her dying wish: "We must do something big for Dr. Matas, something that really will show our appreciation...
...walls grow paper thin. This is an aneurism which any rough usage or surgery is apt to burst. Dr. Matas conceived the plan of opening the blood filled sacs, stitching the walls together like a seamstress taking in a pleat, and leaving the artery with a normal sized bore...
...there is no doubt that he would still be alive if the police had not left him without medical attention for two hours. My husband was always floating financial schemes which we agreed not to discuss. . . . We met nine years ago. It was love at first sight. I bore him a son while he was serving 18 months in jail and we were married afterward. Of course there were other women in his life, mostly spies!" Mlle Lucette Lameras, 27, who was in Stavisky's room when the shot was fired...