Last May 84-year-old Charles Spalding Thomas, onetime (1899-1901; Governor of Colorado, onetime (1913-21) U. S. Senator, defied the Attorney General to take $120 worth of gold he was holding despite the President's anti-hoarding order (TiME, May 15). The Government de clined peppery old Mr. Thomas' invitation to make a test case of his violation. Last week aged, defiant Hoarder Thomas lay ill in his hoary red stone Denver mansion, but he was pleased to know that one member of his family was to go to court to defend what the Thomases believed...
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