Word: fiat
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...have States and municipalities issue 25-year non-interest bearing bonds to be deposited with the Federal Government which in turn would give the local governments 99? on $1 for public works. Eight times has Mr. Coxey got his bill for the Treasury to issue fiat money introduced in Congress, eight times has it failed of enactment. Declares "General" Coxey: "The American people are still as dumb as beetles." But last week old Mr. Coxey did not think Massillon Republicans were so dumb. They gave him 2,983 votes and nominated him for Mayor over two rivals, one of them...
...Author. Though young (29), "Daniel-Rops" (a pseudonym) has written four books, has won two prizes. His first, Notre inquietude, won the Paul Fiat; l'Ame obscure took second place in the Goncourt; Two Men in Me (Deux homines en moi) won last year's Gringoire Prize. He is a professor of literature at a French University...
Purchased were 8,000 acres of barren sand dunes. On March 12, 1906 surveyors drove their first stakes among the tumbleweeds for U. S. Steel's fiat city. Streets were laid out, houses built, water and gas mains sunk. Top soil was brought in to spread over the sand, to grow trees and grass in. Great scoopers chewed a mile-long harbor back from Lake Michigan. Railroad connections were made. Against the sky began to rise the jagged outlines of steel mills, foundries, tin-plate plants. Within a year $100,000,000 was dumped into this desolate Indiana waste...
Green Hell. About a month ago Count Edmondo di Robilant and Mechanic Mauranta Quaranta left Sao Paulo, Brazil in a fast Fiat pursuit plane, to reconnoitre a prospective air line to Bolivia. Forced down on a tiny clearing in a green hell of jungle, near the bank of the Paranapanema River, the two men set out on foot. They lost their map and compass. A box of crackers, their only food besides a jar of marmalade, was consumed by red ants while they slept. Bitten raw by insects, torn by thickets, nearly starved, the men pushed on through the swamps...
Beethoven's Hammerklavier Sonata in B fiat by Felix Weingartner and the Royal Philharmonic (Columbia, $10)?A great conductor makes a satisfactory symphony out of a great piano sonata...