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...coast of Spain, they came ashore in a little fishing village named Santona, were accosted by an officer who had never heard Colonel Lindbergh's name. A local tycoon named Jose Alvo took them into his house, importantly answered telephone calls from London and Paris trying to trace their whereabouts. Senor Alvo informed one caller: "Yes. Senor Lindbergh is here. He is taking a bath." Two days later, when fog forced them down again on the Minho River, they spent the night in their plane. Spanish sailors and Portuguese fishermen had to dredge the river's shallow, rocky...
...time after the President's instructions to the London Conference the trace of Mr. Morgenthau's and Professor Warren's influence was not obvious. But in October the exchange value of the dollar began to mount. At the same time commodity prices started to sag badly (in accord with Dr. Warren's theory), had to be propped up by large Government purchases of wheat. On Oct. 22 the President over the radio announced that the RFC would begin setting its own price for gold. A week later when that step had failed materially to reduce...
...Professors Carlyle, in their "Medieval Political Theory in the West," I, 157, trace the doctrine to three causes, the correction of anarchy in the primitive church, the relation of the Church to emperors after Constantine, and the influence of the Old Testament ideas on the sanctity of the ruler. On p. 159, they continue "We may at least reasonably say that the tradition of Israel provided the centre around which such opinion took definite shape and form." Indeed, it is impossible to read the Old Testament and feel that Hitler's autocracy, of single party ballots compounded, would have flourished...
...liquidation sale of the firm's jewels): "A business that has lived clean for 131 years is not going to die dirty." Painfully lamented in the jewelry trade is the present want of buyers. Insurance firms report increases in jewelry insurance during the last few months, but trace them to people taking their jewels out of vaults and wearing them; not to new jewelry buying, despite a 40% increase in diamond imports. Distress stocks of defunct jewelry firms still hang unsold over the market and even the desire for possession of tangible goods as a hedge against Inflation...
...series of public lectures on Oriental art, Laurence Binyon, eighth holder of the Charles Eliot Norton Professorship in Poetry, will contrast the western point of view of art with that held by the Chinese; and will trace the currents of thought and art between the East and the West...