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When two U. S. Senators were charged with accepting many thousands of dollars "from Moscow," when a sheaf of documents was produced to prove their guilt (TIME, July 22, 1929), it was Berlin Correspondent H. R. Knickerbocker of the New York Evening Post who exposed the European forgers of the "Red Documents," roused German courts to clap them into jail. Last week famed Correspondent Knickerbocker sent from Berlin to Manhattan some despatches so startling that, should fire follow their smoke, he would become a very celebrated correspondent indeed. He said he had learned "from a high official German source" that...
...Minister, who is also Commonwealth Treasurer (he has been called "The Snowden of Canberra"), made his budget speech. He began by announcing that the Commonwealth Treasury has a deficit of £14,000,000 ($68,000,000). Then, leaning from the rostrum tense and resolute he said, displaying a sheaf of papers: "I have in my hand a new table of tariffs, the most sensational in the history of the Commonwealth...
Jubilantly last week Leningrad and Moscow newspapers played up the latest, report on world unemployment released by the International Labor Office at Geneva.* According to this vital sheaf of statistics the Soviet Union is the only Great Power in which more men and women have jobs this year than last...
Last week the official opening of the Bank for International Settlements at Basle (see above) was Mr. Gilbert's cue to wind up his affairs in Berlin, prepare to sail for the U. S. By signing a fat sheaf of papers, he transferred to the B. I. S. at Basle $17,577,450 representing the credit balance of the Reparations Commission at Berlin, plus $25,996,500 representing its balances in the capitals of the Great Powers...
With eyes that never left the sheaf of notes in his hand, His Majesty King George V faced a gold-plated microphone* and spoke with the pleasant sing-song voice of a benevolent clergyman. Said...