Word: gold
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Supreme Court for Franklin Roosevelt, his four appointees this week lined up to give the New Deal a victory which it could not have had otherwise. Hugo Black (no dissenter for once) ruled for himself as well as Stanley Reed, Felix Frankfurter, Bill Douglas that bonds previously payable in gold dollars or foreign currency equal to their gold dollar value are now payable in devalued Roosevelt dollars. Owen Roberts agreed, in the first 5-to-4 decision of the current term. Dissenters: Chief Justice Hughes, Justice Stone and (as usual) Justices McReynolds, Butler...
Since Adolf Hitler came to full power even the least bellicose nations of Europe have feared for their lives. Alarmed by Herr Hitler's warlike attitude, Switzerland last autumn mined her frontiers, nearly doubled her Army strength. The Netherlands has exiled almost all her gold to safer regions, has completed plans for opening her dikes to flood a large part of the country. In the north countries of Denmark, Norway, Sweden and Finland, not only have there been increased expenditures for arms, but the four small nations have long been banded together as the Oslo Powers to present...
Second Day. Next morning, bound for Montreal, 180 miles up the St. Lawrence Their Majesties boarded the Royal train, a silver, blue and gold twelve-car streamliner with Royal bedrooms connected by a sliding, panel, gold-plated telephones, a lounge car, offices and bedrooms for the staff and party. At every whistle-stop the populace waved frantically, but the only full stop was at Three Rivers, where the King and Queen walked over the tracks on a wooden platform to greet 50,000 appreciative gazers, twice the town's population...
...first base is Hank Doyle, the Gold Coaster contribution to the inner quartet. Doyle had a close call there for this post, because most of the League first sackers were about equal in ability...
...stuff, not even the rankest jitterbug could find much satisfaction with Mr. James playing such tricks as using the beginning of "Bach Goes To Town" and most of the famous Berigan chorus from the Benny Goodman record on "King Porter Stomp" . . . Rumor's flying around that Stan Brown's Gold Coast Orchestra may appear on Benny Goodman's Camel Hour program in June. And that the King of Swing will be given a royal welcome at Widener Library when he arrives . . . Louis Armstrong does "West End Blues" (Decca) this week, and while it isn't as good as the famous...