Word: echoed
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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President Roosevelt's decision to abandon gold as the basis of U. S. currency had its roots in developments weeks, months, years ago. The echo of the 1929 stock crash had hardly died away be fore the political cry for more and cheaper money took its place. This cry increased as the value of the dollar climbed higher and higher against the value of goods. President Hoover bucked the demand for currency inflation by attempts at credit inflation, most of them unsuccessful...
...Louis Democracy's victory, an echo from last November, was far from complete. Republican Louis Nolte was re-elected city comptroller for the fifth time. Republicans retained a majority on the board of aldermen...
...only man who has ever contributed steadily and simultaneously to both the (late) Dial and the Saturday Evening Post, the (late) Manhattan Evening Graphic and the New Republic. He has been music critic, military expert, war correspondent, editorial writer & foreign correspondent (Philadelphia Public Ledgers), political correspondent (L'Echo de Paris), associate editor (Collier's), managing editor (The Dial). contributing editor (The New Republic), dramatic critic (Manhattan Evening Graphic). At present he writes a Hearst-syndicated colyum. His adaptation of Aristophanes' Lysistrata was a 1930 box-office success. Harvard-man (1914), married (to Alice Walhams Hall), with...
...Mexican Government circles El Universal Grafico's "warning" was pooh-poohed, but U. S. residents of Mexico City called it significant, a timely echo of popular Mexican fears...
...jewels which legend says Queen Isabella pawned to finance Christopher Columbus; for great occasions he sprinkled gold dust on his carriage horses. William Jennings Bryan, when he saw Tabor's daughter, said her laugh had the ring of a silver dollar. Tabor had her christened Rosemary Silver Dollar Echo Honeymoon Tabor. When the campaign for free silver failed, Tabor was ruined. President McKinley made him postmaster of Denver in 1898. A year later Tabor died, after advising his wife never to let go his last silver mine, the Matchless...