Into the anteroom of Undersecretary Dean Achesonon the second floor of the Treasury Building in Washington, big-framed Jesse Holman Jones and Henry Morgenthau Jr. strode at 9:30 one morning last week.
"How about gold?'' demanded a dozen newshawks who were waiting for them.
Smiling, Jesse Jones grabbed Mr. Acheson's secretary, pointed to her teeth and wisecracked, "There's some gold for you."
After he and Mr. Morgenthau went in to Mr. Acheson, bored newshawks waited for 20 minutes. At last the door opened, the Jones head appeared, the Jones finger beckoned. In filed the newshawks. Reading...
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