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...Finn-passed on ten final sets of plans from Great Britain, the U. S., France, Germany, Italy, Spain, for a memorial lighthouse to Christopher Columbus in Santo Domingo. When they agreed, they gave the $10,000 prize and a contract for his design to a 24-year-old Briton, one J. L. Cleave of Nottingham...
...much integrity in a pound worth $4 as in a pound worth $4.86." British tourists fussed and fumed as they landed at Manhattan, were offered as low as $3 for a pound by exchange offices on the piers. "A pound is still a pound in England!" stormed one Briton in an Old Etonian tie just off the S. S. Homeric (Britain's "Ship of Splendor"). "I shall carry my pounds home with me! A bit high this, something of a holdup, what?" From London the international firm of Thomas Cook & Son circularized the British Isles with a doleful announcement...
...Many a Briton has wanted to know if the Great Mutiny sprang from small Socialist cells or Communist cankers within the Fleet. ''I asked man after man if there had been any organization," declared Lady Astor, "and they all said no, that there had been none...
...Made Good. But by junior year he was known and liked by everyone that counted in the college. He edited the Lit, left college to go to War, came back to take his degree with such friends as Stephen Vincent Benet. Thornton Niven Wilder, the late Briton Hadden...
...sheer determination to restore sterling's prestige was a chief factor in doing so. Par was reached when the Treasury contracted to sell gold to all comers. To prevent hoarding of gold sovereigns, pound notes were not redeemable at their face value in gold, but if a Briton could collect about $8,000 worth of paper money he could get a 400-oz. gold bar. Economists now agree that this move was made before the nation as a whole was ready for it. It was a move to benefit British banking and prestige. But it harmed British industry...