Word: cousinly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...side a hoard of silver, a highly speculative asset against some of its liabilities. Only sensible explanation of the Treasury's continuing to increase that huge speculation is that it is looking forward to making the dollar a gold & silver combination. That would be symmetallism, first cousin to bimetallism and would take the speculative element out of the U. S. silver hoard. But no word did the Treasury breathe last week of symmetallism or bimetallism. Talk of monetary changes has brought too many dead cats flying towards the Treasury. Now the Treasury no longer talks...
Splotchy with measles caught from classmates, Kermit Roosevelt Jr., cousin of Theodore III and Cornelius, bedded himself in Harvard's infirmary...
...times. Austrian troops, goose-stepping down the Ringstrasse and past the Imperial Palace saluted a towering old field marshal beside whom Chancellor Schuschnigg and President Miklas of the Austrian Republic seemed dwarfed to insignificance Der Feldmarschall was His Imperial and Royal Highness Eugen von Habsburg, Archduke of Austria and cousin of Franz Josef. Among the field pieces which clattered Eugen, many were seen to exceed the 5.5 inch calibre to which Austria is limited by the Treaty of St. Germain. The big surprise to most Austrians, who thought they possessed no treaty-banned battle planes, came when 15 big bombers...
Died. Warren Delano Robbins, 49, U. S. Minister to Canada, first cousin of President Roosevelt; of pneumonia; in Manhattan. A career diplomat since 1909, he became chief of the Division of Protocol of the State Department in 1931, Minister to Canada...
Died. Sharifa Huzayma, 50, Queen Mother of Irak, cousin and widow of its late King Feisal. mother of its present King Ghazi I; in Bagdad...