Word: foreign
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...since the court-packing bombshell of 1937 has there been in Washington an explosion comparable to that threatened today. Around the issue of foreign policy, posed by the two snarling, but temporarily caged, European wildcats, battle line are forming; and soon Messrs. Nye, Borah, and Clark are sure to declare war. When that happens, there will be a hot time in at least one old American town...
...Woodbury Lowery fellowships for research in historical archives, preferably those relating to American History in the archives of foreign countries and more particularly in Spain, for the first half year were given to William L. Langer, Coolidge Professor of History, and Claude T. Richards 4G of Salt Lake Cite, Utah...
Under the 1934 Silver-Purchase Law. designed ostensibly to broaden the monetary base, the U. S. Treasury has spent nearly $1,000,000,000 buying silver at the pegged prices (now 64? an ounce for domestic silver, 43? for foreign silver), a substantial subsidy which has stimulated silver production the world around, driven China off the silver standard. Author Leavens speculates on what would have happened if this law had never passed, concludes that silver miners would have had a hard time, that the price would have fallen sharply, but that eventually a new and satisfactory equilibrium would have been...
...happen to be from Utah, which, as you all know, is an important silver State. And I have said to friends of mine there that the foreign-silver purchase program does more in my opinion to ultimately destroy the domestic silver industry than anything else I know. . . . When you buy the world's silver you tend to destroy the use of silver elsewhere in the world. . . ." To document his point, Marriner Eccles pointed out that industrial consumption of silver had fallen more than 50% since the Treasury began gorging...
Coach Stahl sent Captain Art Johns in to pitch against the Duke Dovlia at Durham; his strategy almost succeeded, the Crimson foreign the hard-hitting home team to the limit before losing...