Word: coin
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Hull calls the Japanese war party "Dillinger" for short. He has the "prevision of a frontiersman" and his "prudent judgments" are the obverse, in State Department coin, of the President's driving self -confidence. Mr. Roosevelt kicked over the traces with his undiplomatic dagger-in-the-back reference to Mussolini. But "18th-Century" Sumner Welles, who was vexed about the dagger, is "erroneously regarded by left-wing intellectuals in this country as a 'reactionary' force in foreign policy." Davis & Lindley prove their point by revealing that while U.S. relations with the Soviet Union were at their worst...
...HIGH WINDOW - Raymond Chandler-Knopf ($2). Tough but intelligent Private Detective Marlowe, hired to trace a valuable coin missing from a California collection, stays to solve murders, past & present, in a wealthy and belligerent clan. Excellent writing, fantastic characters and shrewd detecting place it among the best...
Unprecedented brisk summer trade is being enjoyed by proprietors of almost every business the Square. Given a shot in the arm by the ready coin of 4,000 Summer School students and hundreds of Army and Navy men, the merchants have lost all thought of the usual summer doldrums...
...Reserve gold notes, put $4,200,000,000 worth into circulation. They won't be, as promised on their face, "redeemable in gold on demand." Like all New Deal Federal Reserve notes, they may be exchanged only for "lawful money of the United States," i.e., smaller bills or coin...
...Barrett Wendell Prize, consisting of books, for the Sophomore majoring in History and Literature "who has made the most notable progress during the year," was won by Roy McM. Millen '44, of Coin, Iowa...