Word: coin
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...great Sir Gerald du Maurier plays a French valet. Catherine the Great, however, is Elizabeth Bergner's play. She is small (102 lb.), gentle, supple but not beautiful. In a blonde wig she is a young Catherine that might have been stamped on a bright silver coin. Possessed of extremely large brown eyes, she looks prettily petite when reviewing her guardsmen in tights. But at last when in a roomful of officers she learns her husband is dead, her wrath and majesty are so great that her stature suddenly seems to increase and dominate the men. Elizabeth Bergner appeared...
...Evanston, Ill. met 250 C. & C. secretaries, State superintendents, mission board members, committee men and women. Dr. Charles Emerson Burton, general secretary, told them how income had gone down, how all the churches seemed prostrate with a "spirit of defeatism." The delegates voted to start a coin-box campaign for "a penny-a-meal-for-missions." But raising money, no matter how much needed, by helping businessmen sell their products, they could not go. The C. & C. church club women voted their protest against "exploitation of the women of the churches" by the Goodwin Plan or any other...
Five proposals about the future of the C. S. dollar were the substance of the President's money message to Congress: 1) To issue no more gold coins; in future to keep all the monetary gold of the U. S. in the form of bullion [big gold bars] which will be used only in settlement of international trade balances. This step, generally foreseen, caused no surprise. Since gold coin is in little demand except in times of crisis and at such times goes into hoarding, it is worse than useless to the nation as a whole. 2) To have...
First, recognition of the fact that in most countries gold coin has been effectively withdrawn from circulation and monetary gold has been concentrated very largely in the vaults of central banks. With this there has developed a custom of using gold bullion instead of coin to redeem the notes of central banks...
...strength of this international agreement the President proclaimed that the U. S. Mint would take all silver henceforth mined in the U. S., would coin half of it into dollars, half-dollars, quarters and dimes which would be handed back to the producers. The other half the Government would keep for its trouble. Since by law 50 ounces of silver make $64.50 in coins, silver miners would receive that amount for every 100 ounces they produced, or 64 1/2? per ounce, about 21? more than the current market price...