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...Gold Prohibition Law (as Mr. Scherman terms the anti-hoarding act of the banking crisis days) no one else in the United States but the Treasury, not even the Federal Reserve Banks, can hold any gold at all. Further, the President by executive decree can fix the weight of the gold in a dollar pretty much as he pleases. This particular power expired in 1939 and it is in the renewal of F. D. R.'s authority to establish the gold content per executive pleasure that Scherman sees a real danger...
...from Maine to the Middle West and has been translated into Chinese. Their book tells how to choose colors in rugs and draperies, how to arrange furniture in a room, how to balance knick-knacks on a mantelpiece and food on a plate, how to dress tastefully, how to fix flowers, frame pictures, choose men's clothes, how to spot a good thing, from a well-designed fly swatter to a well-planned city. Its pages fairly bulge with pictures of good v. bad taste...
This news brought out two commentaries on recent naval history and the current state of the naval mind. When the Navy proposed to fix up the New York, Texas and Arkansas several years ago, the British objected that naval treaties (since lapsed) prohibited the changes. The British now would be happy to have the battleships ready for duty...
...animal caravan down the Mongolian desert to China, 3,700 miles in all from Vladivostok to Chungking. Links in the route were not exactly new; their origins as a pack trail predated Marco Polo, Genghis Khan and the mighty Chin. About three years ago the Chinese began to fix up the road, stringing repair shops, gasoline dumps and food stations across the tundra...
...performance of her new departure into drama. Waltzing to Paradise or making love with handsome kinky-haired Dennis Morgan, she throws in a whopping supply of spirited romance. As a brokenhearted wife or the mother of a dead child, she plunges her scenes into deep tragedy. Kitty Foyle should fix an even more permanent place for Ginger in the hearts of her feminine fans...