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Significance. When the Silver Purchase Act of 1934 was passed, many an observer pointed out that the Treasury had discretion in the purchase of silver, probably would not try very hard to build up a huge silver reserve. Last week's announcement showed that those observers were wrong. The figures on Treasury purchases, released for the first time, showed that the Treasury had been far from idle. It now holds $1.450,000.000 worth of silver (fictitiously valued at $1.29 per oz. in Government bookkeeping), which is half what is required to bring silver stocks...
...They will be wrong. You cannot frighten English people that way; you will only infuriate them ... I do not disguise the fact that living in London during the next war will be uncomfortable and moderately dangerous, but London is not going to be wiped out nor is the civil population going to be exterminated...
...comforting to feel that the future of the country is in the hands of such eminently sound men as the gentlemen of the New York Assembly. After all, nothing can be radically wrong in a world from which nudism has been banished. Assemblyman Heck, however, who said in reference to the Tennessee evolution law: "As a result of that, Tennessee earned the name of 'monkey state.' New York is liable to get a beautiful name of the same nature if we enact this bill into law," exaggerates, moved by pardonable pride in his own commonwealth. Many other legislatures will pass...
...think the editorial you published on the new plan was a very good example of "My country right or wrong...
...Frisch won't rely on me as much this summer as he did last year. I can't do the managing and pitching all at once. . . . Frankie thinks he can win this pennant by putting the halter on me'n Paul. He's got the wrong idea. I told him so and he told me to shut my mouth. . . . Looking at things as they are today, I'd say that me'n Paul would win 45 games this season, and the Cardinals will win the pennant by an eyelash...