Word: coined
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Guernsey, studied Yogi philosophy, wrote comforting letters to her much-troubled daughter, Anne Urquhart Potter ("Fifi") Stillman McCormick. Died. David Sheldon Barry, 76, long-time newspaper correspondent, onetime (1919-33) Sergeant-at-Arms of the U. S. Senate; of heart disease; in Washington D. C. Died. William Hope ("Coin") Harvey, 84, oldtime champion of bimetallism on whose coattails William Jennings Bryan rose to fame; of peritonitis; in Monte Ne, Ark. In 1900, when the Democrats abandoned their advocacy of free coinage of silver, Harvey moved to the Ozarks, began work on his proposed 130-ft. "Pyramid of America...
...Thesis- One April afternoon in 1917 George W. Norris of Nebraska stood before the U. S. Senate and cried out: "We are going into war upon the command of gold. ... I would like to say to this war god, 'You shall not coin into gold the lifeblood of my brethren.' ... I feel that we are about to put the dollar sign upon the American flag." Senator Norris' words were not history. They were the judgment of a man upon contemporary events...
...their annual convention at Chicago's Sherman Hotel. On display were 50 new varieties of bagatelle boards including one to resemble a map of Ethiopia with Haile Selassie's palace az high-score hole. To his confreres, Clinton S. Darling, secretary of the National Association of Coin Operated Machine Manufacturers, expressed his confidence in a pastime which has already lasted twice as long as midget golf: "The industry has supported many thousands of factory workers in making these games and in allied industries. . . . We believe that this industry will go on in spite of temporary handicaps such...
...South African Kaffirs and if Haile Selassie expects his affairs to return status quo ante after the shooting dies down he is likely to receive a smart rap on the "kisser." Indeed it would appear that the Newshawk Negus had better send his "obit" to the linotyper for the coin of fate may be tails on both sides...
...From February 1933, the last month in which we were on the old gold coin standard, to the present, wholesale prices have risen 35% and the cost of living 16%," Dr. Kemmerer declared. "Many important items of food have shown spectacular rises during this period. The public, particularly our women folk, are becoming increasingly concerned over these continued advances in the cost of living; and consumers' strikes are being reported frequently...