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...whatever they would bring in dollars. Secretary Morgenthau, alert at his desk in Washington, instantly used the $2,000,000,000 U. S. stabilization fund to buy the British money offered by the Bolsheviks. He then angrily exploded to Washington correspondents whom he hastily summoned, asking them to flash news of what he had done throughout the world. This flash could be counted on to warn money speculators everywhere that they would get their fingers burned if they tried to manipulate for reasons of private profit the dollars, pounds and francs with which it is the exalted mission of Morgenthau...
...large truckload of souvenirs acquired by the King in the Balkans, including Bulgarian rosewater and pots of a kind of jam he liked in Greece. As son went in to dine with devoted mother a crowd, cheering outside Buckingham Palace in the deep dusk, glimpsed only the white flash of His Majesty's starched shirtfront, concluded from the low visibility of King Edward's face that he must have become very tanned...
...wind is so fast we can't walk against it, autos can't get through, there are no lights and communications. . . . People here don't keep much food on hand and the dairy, milk, ice, meat -all food service is gone. It takes a revealing flash like this to -GET THE HELL OFF THIS LINE! Not you, New York, just a minute...
...photographers were summoned. When Governor Landon hung back in the crowd of notables, President Roosevelt turned to Governor Herring, said. "Won't you bring the Governor up closer?" Nominee Landon took his stance by the President's side and the two grinned amiably at each other as flash bulbs flared. The photographs, centring every eye on Alf Landon in the midst of a mass of dark-suited figures, proved that the Republican nominee had performed his master maneuver, whether planned or accidental, when he put on a white suit that morning...
...embargo prohibiting arms shipments to Spain (TIME, Aug. 17) which was originally proposed by the new French Cabinet of Socialist Premier Léon Blum, promptly accepted by Britain and belatedly agreed to fortnight ago by Italy. After a beaming exchange of compliments, the French Ambassador hurried off to flash the good news to his Government. Paris afternoon papers were the most friendly to Germany in months. In effect a kiss of diplomatic accord had been given by Aryan Hitler to Jew Blum, and that was news at which every lover of Peace rejoiced...