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Since a great and ruthless effort will now be made to maintain the value of the ruble in Russia at 20?,* the State further decreed last week: 1) that all "Torgsin Stores'' which have sold goods in Russia for foreign currency exclusively are abolished as of Dec. 15; 2) that all foreign tourists, who have hitherto been discouraged by every means from the use of rubles (for fear they might have got them at "black bourse" rates), are from now on compelled to make all purchases in Russia with rubles bought at the State Bank...
...Mather repeated his opposition, which he has consistently maintained, to the spirit behind the statute, not to the oath itself. "Certainly as a teacher of geology," he said yesterday, "It is necessary for me to maintain cultural relations with Soviet geologists." This privilege he further retained in the reservations...
Granted that the library cannot maintain a constant guard to see that books are not mutilated. Also granted that officials cannot look through each of the hundred of books before and after they are used in the reading rooms...
...district Federal Reserve Bank. He is not immediately interested in the fact that a Federal Reserve Bank's chief asset is gold (today gold certificates). But he knows that his reserves must equal 3% of all his time deposits. If he is a country banker he must maintain a 7% reserve against his demand deposits. In Manhattan and Chicago, the two "central reserve" cities, the reserve requirement for demand deposits is 13%. In all other large cities the figure is 10%. All reserves above those requirements are earmarked "excess...
...March 26, 1796, General Napoleon, Commander-in-Chief of the Army of Italy, with a dubious reputation to maintain, arrived in Nice to take charge of his demoralized and mutinous troops. The 26-year-old officer was oppressed by great worries. His army was unfed, undisciplined, dissipating every victory by pillaging. His staff was jealous and unreliable. The suspicious Directory in Paris hampered his activities. He was outnumbered by the Austrians and the Piedmontese. Moreover, his bride of 17 days, a onetime aristocrat, did not answer his letters. In less than four months Napoleon had virtually driven the Austrians from...