Word: gold
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...with President Paul von Hindenburg and Chancellor Hermann Muller. Accordingly he was able, when he returned to Paris, to mention for the first time a definite annual Reparations sum which Germany offers to pay. Although shrouded in official secrecy this offer was soon known to be 1,500.000,000 gold marks per year ($356,850,000). Promptly the Allied delegates repeated their demand for $625,000,000; and Messrs. Morgan and Young were understood to be suggesting $500,000,000. Thus after a month of cautious trafficking in generalities, the Second Dawes Committee got down to coldest cash...
Criticisms. Europeans grew increasingly fearful, last week, lest what they persisted in calling the "Morgan-Young Bank" should turn out to be a glittering gold and silver U.S. strait-jacket for European finance. The dread lest a controlling interest in the new Bank should be vested in Wall Street would not down, last week, even when Mr. Thomas W. Lamont of No. 23 Wall Street (The House of Morgan) solemnly assured correspondents that such fears are baseless...
...Giuliano did one thing to insure his immortality. Once, while visiting his brother the Pope, he donned a gold hair net, black biretta, grey-green and furry cloak, scarlet vest. In this attire he climbed to an upper chamber of the Vatican palace (through a window could be seen the squat turret of Castle St. Angelo), and there sat for the popular painter, Raphael Sanzio. Raphael was then in his prime, his original talents reinforced by much critical study of Masaccio, da Vinci, Michelangelo, Bartolommeo. He painted Giuliano with the grace and color befitting even a mediocre Medici...
This winter ingenious promoters devised a way to keep some of the U.S. gold in town for the evening. They withdrew two miles from Tiajuana to a spot called Agua Caliente. Here they built a beautiful hotel and beside it a large and luxurious gambling casino. While the rabble is fleeing for the border from Tiajuana, the lazy rich man is beginning to dress for dinner at Agua Caliente...
...nine persons, headed by a member from Poland. The advantageous feature of the Committee is that it can call upon the experts of all nations, just as it asked an Englishman and a Frenchman, specialists on tuberculosis and diseases resulting from dust, to inspect the conditions in the gold mines of South Africa...