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...bargain prices to "distributors" for an average price of $25 for every $100 of bad bills. The "distributors" sell the counterfeits at varying profit to honest men & women in desperate need of money, and to crooks, to swindlers. Last week in Manhattan secret service agents exposed a ring of counterfeiters who had been selling their bills at a cut rate of $15 per $100. The sleuths crept toward a loft building, dashed up stairs, smashed down a door to find four counterfeiters with their pockets stuffed with their own product. They also found an offset press, several thousand counterfeit...
...naval policy was made Aug. 4, 1931 by Secretary Adams but soon became a dead letter because of President Hoover's indifference toward the Navy. Now the Navy has a great & good friend in the White House-a fact which gave the Swanson Policy Sheet a new ring of determination, sent a thrill of hope and elation throughout the service. Like his predecessor, Secretary Swanson promised: "To create, maintain and operate a navy second to none . . . "To develop the Navy to a maximum in battle strength . . . "To organize the Navy so that expansion only will be necessary...
...Adolf Hitler once barred from joining his Storm detachments, were told that they must join the brownshirt Storm Battalions and obey hereafter only Chancellor Hitler. Similarly dissolved and merged were the 10,000 green-shirted youths organized by Nationalist Leader Dr. Alfred Hugenberg as his party's "Battle Ring...
...demanding the return to Germany of her pre-War colonies by the London Conference (see p. 17). were obliged to print with an approving tone last week that "The Chancellor received Dr. Hugenberg tonight with no others present and explained to him the reasons for the Battle Ring's suppression...
...Caruso and loves to tell about the days when he taught Italy's Queen Margherita to play the mandolin. Salmaggi has an Aïda complex. He has given Verdi's spectacular opera in Egypt at the foot of the pyramids, in Mexico City's bull ring, in dozens of open-air stadiums. He uses elephants, camels, horses. The Hippodrome venture started out as an all-Aïda affair. Some 10,000 passes were given out for the first performances but to the management's amazement hundreds had to be turned away from the boxoffice...