Word: gold
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...maverick in the Southwest is a stray, unbranded calf; finders, keepers. The name comes from Samuel Augustus Maverick who landed in Matagorda, Tex. from South Carolina early in 1835 with a Yale education, $36,000 in gold and so much energy that when he died he left ten children and more land than almost anyone in the U. S. Only cattle he owned were 453 head, acquired for a debt, which he put on an island and forgot. When their unbranded offspring wandered ashore, cowmen would whoop, "There's a Maverick!" and rope...
...Maurice to be served at the Government dinner at the Chateau Frontenac. In Montreal, original seating arrangements for a civic banquet had to be altered and round tables replaced when officials belatedly realized that no one may sit with his back to the King. At the Chateau gold-plated microphones were installed for the King's first speech. Towns along the St. Lawrence heaped bonfires, decked railway stations. At Callander, Dr. Allan Roy Dafoe got his morning coat out of mothballs and the Dionne quintuplets practiced pretty curtsies in preparation for their trip to Toronto to meet King George...
...danger in America is not Fascism," he said, referring to an article which he had written in Washington for "The Capitol Daily" on "Gold, War, and National Money...
...ideas on money are summed up in a statement of Schacht, former German economic minister, that "Money that is not issued against needed goods is mere printed paper," and the remark that "gold and silver are not needed goods...
Stan Brown and his Crimsonian dance orchestra, which will henceforth assume the traditional name 'Gold Coast Orchestra," were officially welcomed into the ranks of the Instrumental Clubs last night at the Clubs' fifty-third annual banquet...