Word: coin
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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From the German point of view, President Roosevelt, in trade matters, is a shady coin-clipper who cheapened the value of the U. S. dollar and thus "unfairly" reduced U. S. export prices on the World market. In Washington's eyes, the German Economics Minister and Reichsbank President Dr. Hjalmar Schacht is also shady because he does not similarly and frankly reduce the value of all German marks but, instead, has created an intentionally bewildering list of different kinds of marks. Each has a separate value and all are manipulated to Germany's trade advantage by Schacht...
...BLOOD PRESSURE. Coin Machines. Original, patented. The biggest hit of the year. Hundreds now on display. Ideal for resorts, amusement centers, etc. Operated with or without an attendant. Income as much as $150 per week. Now at $39.50. Send for illustrated circular...
...elections, they should control the next Chamber, should be able to form the next Cabinet. Their united votes last week were less than had been anticipated, about 50% of the 10,000,000 cast. Thus chances were that the Left Front can form a government only by coin-promising with the Right in the traditional French manner. During the life of the last Chamber of Deputies France changed Cabinets eleven times...
...role in the old rite, watched in Westminster Abbey while his Almoner distributed doeskin purses of scarlet & white thongs to 67 hand-picked old men of the Parish of Westminster, 67 old women, the King being 67 years old. Since a set of specially minted Maundy Pence is a coin collectors' item worth $1, the old folks get a little more than face value for their handout. They also get $12.50 per man, $8.75 per woman, in lieu of a gift of clothing...
...Liberty Street branch of Manhattan's Chemical Safe Deposit Co. last week went Captain William H. Houghton, U. S. Secret Service chief in New York, and two assistants. They had received, a tip that one Zelik Josefowitz was hoarding a large store of gold coin. Armed with a search warrant, they opened the safe deposit box held by Zelik Josefowitz and two other members of the Josefowitz family. Inside were four bags, the weight of which convinced the agents that their search was ended. Opened, the bags revealed a treasure in the form of $20 gold pieces. For three...