Word: dishonors
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...entire gold supply of the world, why are we going off the gold standard? Foreign governments could withdraw less than $700,000,000 of our gold, which would leave us an ample fund. . . . The suggestion that we may devalue the gold dollar 50% means national repudiation. It means dishonor! It is im- moral! . . . There never was a necessity for a gold embargo, for making statutory criminals of citizens who may please to take their property in gold out of banks. . . . "If there were need to go off the gold standard, very well, I would...
...Belleau Wood, St. Mihiel, and in the Argonne." From this M. Herriot made a smooth transition to: "Messieurs! The Premier of France has come before you to ask you to honor the thing which is more sacred than anything else -the Signature of France. I personally refuse to dishonor it. ... We must avoid the isolation which surely would follow default." But the possibility of default loomed larger and larger. Premier Herriot, ignoring the Stimson "No" to Britain's first note, prepared a note nearly identical in import, confidently submitted it to the committees on Finance and Foreign Affairs. While...
...Nottingham). Cousin Anthony J. Jr. espoused Marjorie Gould, daughter of gay George Jay and niece of another pious socialite, Helen Gould (Mrs. Finley Johnson Shepard). Other Drexels were much in the world. Not so the daughters of Francis Anthony. Katharine read Helen Hunt Jackson's A Century of Dishonor, toured the West with Elizabeth to find out how Indians were cared for. She found things even worse than the book had indicated. To better them she began by building a wooden chapel-school in the Indian Territory for the Osages. When a cyclone wrecked it she built another, then...
While "Big Bill" Thompson exulted loudly over having nominated "his man" and rolled his eyes in anticipation of long happy days at Springfield, the righteous Republican Chicago Daily News grieved aloud at the primary result in a front-page editorial entitled "Dead on the Field of Dishonor" and beginning...
Safe in Hell (First National) is routine death-before-dishonor melodrama except that in most such cases it is considered against the rules for either death or dishonor, no matter how imminent they may be, actually to occur. This time a streetwalker has escaped from New Orleans to an unnamed island to avoid the legal penalty for a murder which she thinks she has committed. She (Dorothy Mackaill), finds herself in a quandary. She can either accept the attentions of a greasy jail-warden, or allow him to give evidence that will cause her to be killed before her husband...