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The spectacle of a great, solvent government paying a fictitious price for gold it did not want and did not need and doing it on purpose to debase the value of its own paper currency was one to astonish the world.

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Garet Garrett
Age: 76 †
Born: 1878
Born: February 19
Died: 1954
Died: November 6
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