Word: coined
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...bill not only confirmed and approved all President Roosevelt had done but also re-enacted for peacetime those parts of the Trading-With-the-Enemy Act that had to do with gold, currency and foreign exchange. The Secretary of the Treasury was empowered to call in all private gold coin and gold certificates. Violators of any executive order could be fined $10,000, jailed for ten years...
...gold currency to be called Federal Reserve Bank Notes.* Behind it were to be U. S. Government obligations at par, discounted commercial paper at 90% of its estimated value. Some $2,000,000,000 worth of this new currency was expected to be issued to replace cash & coin now hoarded, but the total was not limited. The Federal Reserve banks were to advance it to member banks on the thinnest sort of security ("cats & dogs," Senator Glass called it). Individuals were also permitted to borrow direct from the Federal Reserve on Government securities...
...banks could proceed at once to make change, to relieve the shortage of small bills and coin...
...What's that?" the officer asked, pointing to the magnifying glass near the coin slot...
...Paramount). A Manhattan gambler, hard-pressed by the police, selects a hideaway by stabbing a time table with a pencil. In the sleepy village of Glendale he comes upon a beautiful librarian who is yearning for metropolitan excitements. He decides, on the flip of a coin, to marry her, takes her back to town with him. By the time the picture is over, hardboiled Babe Stewart is no longer a gambler. Reformed by his gay little librarian, he has voluntarily served three months in jail, is in a fair way to become-for him a step up in the world...