Word: golde
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...President Roosevelt designated Sept. 25 as Gold Star Mother...
...chauffeur heard Corrigan say as the procession started for City Hall. When the welcoming parade was over, Douglas Corrigan had his appraisal ready: "What? . . . only two hours and fifteen minutes. ... In Kansas City the parade was two hours and forty minutes." Down at the Hall Corrigan got a shiny gold medal. "This is a pretty good medal," he vouchsafed to Mayor Frank L. Shaw. Then he added: "Some of the others were better...
...second-rate nation financially, its markets peewee, its banking system immature, much of its industry financed from Europe. Now the New York Stock Exchange is the world's No. 1 securities market, the U. S. holds 55% of the world's gold and the nation, no longer a debtor, is the world's creditor...
...Gold. The flight to the dollar by frightened European capital last week tumbled the pound to a four-year low of $4.78⅝ and the franc to a twelve-year low of 2.68⅜. Upon the U. S. Treasury thus devolved the enormous responsibility of supporting the world's foreign exchange in order not to let the dollar go to a premium against currencies that would cut off U. S. foreign trade. Secretary Morgenthau refused to let this worry him. Declaring that the U. S. is standing by its tripartite agreement with Great Britain and France, he professed satisfaction...
When the Freethinkers' congress (first to be held in England in 50 years) was announced last April. Lord Glasgow and 70 M. P.s unsuccessfully backed a Blasphemy Bill especially designed to outlaw it. The Home Secretary was petitioned to ban it. Estimates of the amount of Moscow gold backing the "atheists" ranged from 150,000 to 14,000,000 rubles. Arthur Cardinal Hinsley, Roman Catholic Archbishop of Westminster, organized a March of Atonement in which 150,000 Catholic men would walk this week from Southwark to Westminster Cathedral. Said he: "The religious leaders of this land cannot be held...