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Sirs: Capt. Charles P. Smith's (Candidate for Congressman-at-large, Henderson, Texas) cordial invitation to you to take toll of your intestinal fortitude and decide whether or not you could withstand a visit to Impeacher Patman's district is untimely. Lacking or not lacking in intestinal fortitude, I am not lacking in my knowledge of Cass County. TIME'S statement is correct. There are hillbillies in Cass County. Lovable ones, however, and politicians. Rabbits have been cornered in hollow logs in Patman's district. And snuff (between lower lip and teeth, perhaps Levi Garett...
...banking nerves. Now the Federal Reserve System could lend money to its members (in groups of five) on assets which before were ineligible for rediscount. Now it could substitute U. S. securities for gold and commercial paper as coverage for its currency. With the gold thus released, it could withstand foreign raids on the dollar or print more paper money...
...gold, thus freed from currency collateral, as coverage for more money. Always kept in mind is the possibility of foreign demands on the U. S. gold supply?"raids on the dollar." The Glass-Steagall bill intentionally or otherwise will materially strengthen the Federal Reserve's position to withstand gold exports without violent shocks and strains to the U. S. money market...
...treatment was pure. A solution of carbonate of soda was added and the juice again treated with ether, which then was again steamed off. The result was a yellow oil containing some needle-shaped crystals. When these crystals had been treated with ultra violet rays they proved able to withstand storage, and when they were given to a porpoise suffering from scurvy in its acutest form, the porpoise was completely cured after a short time...
...straighten out after the dive?when a wing tore off, then another . . . Pilot Jackson died in the wreckage, one hand hooked in the ripcord of his 'chute. Builder Walter Beech was later quoted as saying he had warned Jackson not to stunt the ship which was not designed to withstand violent maneuvers...