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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Thus did President Roosevelt cite his legal authorities under the Gold Reserve Act of 1934 to reduce the official gold content of the dollar from 100? to 59.06?. By the same proclamation he took possession of the gold reserve ($3,500,000,000) of the Federal Reserve system, authorized the Treasury to buy gold, foreign or domestic, at $35 an ounce, and put its $2,000,000,000 exchange fund into operation. Next steps...
...living costs abroad; 3) the 65% reduction in heating, lighting and rental allowances to diplomats under the Economy Bill. The dollar's decline had been compensated for in foreign service salaries in gold standard countries by paying in gold, but last week, as a final blow, the gold content was officially sliced...
...three chanted: "Verily, we are content with the will...
...Theodore Roosevelt, who coined the phrase. But it still goes on and there is always a man with a hoe, a gentleman with a duster or a lady with a new broom to do what by definition is an endless job. Muckraking Katherine Mayo, not content with trying to tidy up one sty, has gone a-raking into other people's barnyards. Her Mother India, a sensational account of conditions among women in India, still rankles in many a Hindu breast. Isles of Fear, a survey of the Philippines, annoyed Filipino patriots. This time Authoress Mayo, with sleeves rolled...
Following the broadcast, the content of which will be definite instructions from the President for the completion of a huge community service project by the Scouts, Judge Edward A. Counihan, Jr. '04, classmate and close friend of the President, Mayor Richard M. Russell '14, and Herman Gundlach, Jr. '35, captain-elect of the Varsity football team and himself a Star Scout will speak to the Scouts concerning their part in completing the service which will be in connection with the Recovery Program...