Word: coined
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Just Like Gold in appearance, or almost, is Rumania's new metallic currency. Actually an alloy of small value (composition secret) it will, King Carol hopes, restore somewhat the Rumanian people's sadly shaken confidence in the coin of his realm...
...very important collection of Central & South American stamps, belongs to the Society of Philatelic Americans and to the Collectors Club, of which New Jersey's onetime Senator Frelinghuysen and Pianomaker Theodore Steinway are also members. Of the estimated 3,000,000 U. S. stamp collectors, Scott Stamp & Coin Co. guesses that perhaps a maximum of 500.000 are adult, potential Roosevelt boosters...
Tactfully Premier Hertzog said no more last week than that his Government "plans" to have the South African branch of the Royal Mint strike very shortly a new basic coin containing 113 grains of fine gold. Great Britain's pound, while on the gold standard, was also equivalent to 113 grains of fine gold, and South Africa's pound still is. Thus the Union's new unit will have exactly the same value as her present unit; but it will have a gorgeous, glowing 100% South African name, "the Rand...
Principal and Mistress of the little Red school are Comrade Mike Gruzenberg and his wife Comrade Fanny. Famed under his alias "Borodin," Comrade Gruzenberg is considered throughout Russia the ablest Red instigator of foreign revolutions. In the East his silver tongue and Moscow's gold coin made possible the revolutionary conquest of all China by Generalissimo Chiang Kaishek, now President. Today the Chinese Government, which broke with Russia to establish friendly relations with other Great Powers (TIME, April 25, 1927), is again angling for Moscow...
...Coin and Bills...