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...late U. S. citizens selling to Germany have been accepting part payment in so-called "Aski Marks." "Aski" is composed of the initial letters of Auslander Sonder Konto fur Inlandszahlungen, meaning "Foreign Special Accounts for Domestic Payments." In practice the "special" feature of Aski Marks has been that they were only released or unblocked for transactions which the Nazis consider "essential." Last week these were killed, so far as the U. S. is concerned, when Dr. Schacht completely suspended payments in Aski Marks. He also killed "Barter Marks." In the past more than 50% of all German-U. S. trade...
...which Author Dos Passos hangs his narrative, scores of other characters appear, reappear and fade away. Eveline Hutchins, the Chicago Jazz-age girl, attains a Manhattan salon only to end her career with an overdose of sleeping powder. G. H. Barrow, labor-faker, gets a paunch and a fur overcoat by "settling" strikes. Ben Compton, a Brooklyn Jew turned radical and one of Mary French's lovers, finds his life ruined when he is read out of the Party for being a "disrupting influence." All of them - in politics, manufacturing, advertising, Wall Street, the cinema - are swimming for their...
...save Civil War Generals McClellan and Reynolds, but the bronze statues of Locomotive Manufacturer Matthias William Baldwin and John Christian Bullitt, grandfather of Ambassador William Christian ("Bill") Bul litt, had been thoroughly scraped, oiled and polished. Sculptor Donato again sprinted for the Mayor's office, there met with fur ther bad news. A third WPA crew, he was told, had got at a bronze Washington in front of Independence Hall, holystoned away every trace of its treasured greenish mold. The WPA ducked further trouble with aroused Sculptor Donato by announcing that it had no more time to devote...
...Tarsius also has a tail with fur at both ends, bare in the middle...
...long-haired, dandiacal appearance, his likeness to Gilbert & Sullivan's flower-devour-ing Bunthorne, had preceded him. Newshawks delightedly reported his first wisecrack, when he said to the customs inspector: "I have nothing to declare but my genius." Ace Photographer Sarony posed him in his lank locks, fur-trimmed coat and velvet knee-breeches. Society's biggest fish held aloof, but smaller fry came flocking. Skeptical Broadwayites made the first of several pseudo-hospitable attempts to drink Oscar under the table- in vain. Columnists and cartoonists ribbed him unmercifully. But his first lecture (all of them were...