Word: coin
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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With the reissue of the cumbersome silver dollar, the Treasury Department will return to the public within a short time a coin which has become almost a novelty and one seldom used in daily exchange of currency. During the war over three million silver dollars were withdrawn from circulation, melted down, and sent to England, where they were again recoined into money for India. Now under the coinage law the United States government is planning to buy sixty cent silver for one dollar an ounce and inflict "cartwheels" on the people...
...carrier, such as the paper bill. It is bulky, ostentatious, and is a nuisance to carry in large numbers. Nevertheless the Treasury Department, in an attempt to restrict the present inflation of the currency system and gradually call in excessive paper money, has deemed it wise to reissue the coin as an aid to further stabilization of our monetary system and a return to a gold standardization of values...
Winning the flip of the coin, R. W. Harwood ocC., the Crimson lead-off man took the pole. From the time the gun was fired until A. H. Gordon '23, running anchor for the scribes, broke the tape, the Crimson representatives led the procession in spite of the fact that two fast men who were not members of the comic publication ran for Lampy...
...used upon them. However, the eleven German ships of later model and in good condition, will be sent to Davy Jones's locker. In the meantime congress is granting money to enlarge our fleet. If Germany had been forced to give the United States a large sum of gold coin in place of these vessels we would not dump it into the ocean just because it came from a vanquished enemy. These ships have at least some value as transports, tenders, or as mother-ships for sea-planes. Is it a principle of our present system of naval economics that...
Captains Horween and Callahan met in the center and Tiny Maxwell spun the coin. Princeton cheers were given for every man starting the game. Horween won the toss. Strubing, last year's Princeton quarterback, walked across to take the Princeton end of the lines. Sid Curtis has his customary job on the other jole...