Word: coin
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Making no effort to coin a deathless phrase, Edward of Wales last week inaugurated London Post Office's new telegraph rate of nine words for sixpence by wiring his father: "I have the honor to address Your Majesty in this inaugural telegram at the new rate of nine words for sixpence. Edward...
...Moines a suspect held by the police explained his hoard of dimes by insisting he was a coin collector. Des Moines and other Iowa banks had to call on Chicago's Federal Reserve for fresh supplies of dimes...
...Baltimore, Md., a potful of U. S. gold coins with a face value of $11,425, found last year in a cellar by Henry Grob and Theodore Jones, both 17, and awarded them by a Circuit Court Judge, was auctioned off to rare coin collectors for a total of $22,500. Highest price: $105 for a $20 gold piece, one of 2,250 minted at New Orleans...
Scrofula, in the middle ages, was called the King's Evil, because the touch of a royal finger, generally accompanied by the gift of gold coin bearing an angel's likeness, was supposed to cure that disease. But no textbook on pathology describes the ailment which Washingtonians sometimes refer to as ''the disease of Presidents." Neither gold coins nor Presidential touch cures it, for it is something that Presidents themselves contract. Last week as newshawks filed into a White House press conference they found Franklin Roosevelt looking rather brighter-eyed than usual. He began to talk...
...Coin gambling machines account for less than one-third of the Mills slot business. They make pin games; ordinary vending machines for gum. candy and cigarets; automatic phonographs that play one record for 5''. popular in post-Repeal "taverns" and "grills.'' Only significant non-slot Mills product is a counter ice cream freezer selling from...