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...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 by the Federal Reserve Banks. So complex were the legal and political aspects of the question that President Roosevelt was seriously thinking of leaving it to Congress. Few of his monetary advisers doubted, however, that the gold would eventually be called in, so that if and when the dollar is devaluated 50% the Treasury could pocket 100% profit...
...impression that any or all of them may be true, and that it hardly matters. What does matter is the way Author Coates handles his kaleidoscopic but cunningly patterned "narrative." Each of the book's four sections introduces a theme sentence and develops this simple melody into complex harmonies and discords...
...Kennel Murder Case" is a less pretentious film than "After Tonight," and it is a movie that will amuse you if you have liked the earlier Philo Vance mysteries. William Powell as the master of modern sleuths unwinds the complex mystery quite ingeniously...
...Manhattan's gloomy Criminal Courts Building one day last September Lawyer John William Davis uprose to outline to a jury the defense of one of the most complex cases the onetime presidential nominee had ever handled. He began by setting out eight paper cups and a tumbler of water on a table. While he described the involved dealings of defunct Bank of United States, he poured the water from tumbler to cup, from cup to cup and finally from cup to tumbler. "When it is all over," smiled elderly, benign Mr. Davis, ''you see that...
...instructs every Red Army commander "to train each Red Soldier to be devoted in heart and in soul to the World Revolution of the Proletariat." The issuing of such an order at such a time seemed to indicate a slip between the cogs of Dictator Josef Stalin's complex State machine. Last week that popular cog War Minister Klimentiy ("Klim") Voroshilov had not yet returned from his junket to Angora where he congratulated Dictator Mustafa Kemal Pasha on the tenth birthday of the Turkish Republic (TIME, Nov. 6). Order No. 173 was therefore not signed by "Klim...