Word: collections
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...William Jennings Bryan was nominated and defeated for the Presidency in 1896. Harvey worshipped Bryan, stumped the Midwest for him, antagonized good Democratic audiences by going wildly off the silver track. So important had Harvey become that he was later made chairman of the Democratic Ways & Means Committee to collect money for the 1900 campaign. As a result of a quarrel before that election, he resigned and retired in disgust to the hamlet of Monte Ne, Ark. There in a modest little house, he became something of a hermit, puttering around among the hills, issuing dire predictions on the fate...
...successful day for les Caviglioli. From the Grand Hotel they went on to the Continental, where they collected $200. They then called at the Hotel Costa (stopping en route to pluck $120 from the owner of a seaside villa) and demanded $160. The Costa's proprietor did not have that much in his till, but he helped the Cavigliolis collect it from the guests. By now it was getting late. Caviglioli & nephews retreated to the mountains but their luck still held. On the way back they met a party of motorists enjoying a basket picnic. The Cavigliolis collected watches...
Biltmore Junta. In Manhattan's Biltmore Hotel, at least, the revolution went on bravely. As in 1895 the revolutionists established propaganda headquarters in New York to drum up U. S. sympathy, collect U. S. dollars. Head of the Biltmore junta was an elderly, pachydermal gentleman named Dr. Domingo Mendez Capote, who blushingly denied reports that if & when the revolution was successful he might possibly be chosen President of Cuba. The Capote family and the other members of the Biltmore junta were not downhearted. To a steady accompaniment of ringing telephones and banging doors they stayed at their posts, denouncing...
...most, so Charles helps him tie up Grosjean, kidnap the girl. Grosjean pursues them, somehow manages to catch up, shoots Charles. It is a shrewd blow, but Charles recovers. Such is Grosjean's remorse that he is allowed to join the brothers' menage. They drift to Mexico, collect more horses, women, children, a priest. Karin, tired of wandering, wants a house, so they decide to marry their women and settle down. Their community is settled, thriving, increasing, when aging Karin dies. The brothers leave all the rest, take to the trail once more, wander till they are feeble...
Cheap silver (it sold last week at 27⅞? an ounce in Manhattan) is the basis of Mexico's money troubles. She must collect her taxes in silver, pay her foreign bills in gold. The Calles effort was to save all the gold possible for the government...