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...trustees of the Metropolitan persuaded him to accept a salary for his work as curator of armor, but until his retirement in 1927 he made it a point of honor to present the museum every year with a piece of armor, a sword, or a helmet nearly as valuable as his total stipend. In 20 years he visited every important armory in the world, scoured every quarter of the globe for ancient weapons...
...huge, native-made chests of cedar and bulky presses, all loaded with the 5000 specimens, the colectors felt repaid for their hours of horse-back travel and forest excursions on foot, where it was generally necessary to cut a way through tangled vegetation with a machete, the typical, sword-like knife of the New World tropics. But the physical hardships were almost negligible. Thanks to the unstinting hospitality of large land-owners, Harvard's representatives enjoyed many comforts and courtesies on their visits to sugar farms, cattle ranches, and coffee fincas...
...Like the sword of Damocles coffee hangs over Brazil...
...personal triumph seemed complete, but on the New York coffee exchange last week many a broker doubted that the loan would go through, "understood" that the Brazilian coffee situation is in such bad shape that J. Henry Schroder & Co. of London were beginning to wonder whether the coffee sword can be stayed, whether a coffee crisis and price slump are not inevitable...
However, Mr. Young does not share Dr. Schacht's pessimism. Said he: "I have no fear of the slight political tinge which the Plan took on at The Hague." (Dr. Schacht holds that The Hague signatures hung an Allied sword over Germany's head; but Mr. Young cheerfully claimed that the ''military sanctions" provided in case of German refusals to pay have "a most attenuated form," can be ignored as a mere "tinge...