Word: goldenly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...generous a $5,000,000 appropriation to aid the New York World's Fair of 1939 (TIME. May 31), the President last week signed two bills, one providing $3,000,000 for New York City's Fair, another providing $1,500,000 for San Francisco's Golden Gate Exposition...
Like a hen sitting patiently on a nest full of china eggs and growing worried because they would not hatch, Secretary of the Treasury Morgenthau has since last December been sitting on the Government's sterilized golden nest egg. Ever since then, the Government has been buying all the gold imported into the U. S. and storing it away to prevent the normal inflationary effect of such an influx. With recent imports of $5,000,000 a day and a sterile nest egg of $1,145,000,000, Mr. Morgenthau has been kept busy borrowing money to buy more...
Last week, therefore, he was delighted to have Mr. H. H. Kung, Finance Minister of China, come into his office and express China's longing to have a little golden egg of her own. Such an egg Mr. Kung figured would assist China to stabilize her once all-silver currency in relation to the currencies of the great nations which adhere to gold as a medium for settling balances. Would Mr. Morgenthau take some of China's silver in exchange for gold? Mr. Morgenthau was delighted for he is supposed to buy silver under the Silver Purchase...
...arranging an imposing sequence of seven plays, which began June 28, called "The Story of the Southwest." Five of the plays are old: Gerhart Hauptmann's Montezuma, Maxwell Anderson's Night Over Taos, Franz Werfel's Juarez and Maximilian, David Belasco's Girl of the Golden West and Rose of the Rancho. Two are new: Miracle of the Swallows, a play about San Juan Capistrano's annual bird visitors by Ramon Romero, Hollywood correspondent for Spanish-language magazines; and Miner's Gold, a '49er show by Agnes Peterson, a Los Angeles school board...
...Small, mild-mannered, versatile Ludwig Bemelmans worked first in the U. S. as busboy in a Chinese restaurant. His last restaurant job was managing Manhattan's famed Hapsburg restaurant, whose walls he covered with his own paintings. The author of two charming children's books (Hansi, The Golden Basket], illustrated, as is this one, by himself, he has written and drawn for Vogue, Story, Harper's Bazaar, FORTUNE, designed the stage decor for Noah, decorated the studio of Jascha Heifetz. He is now reported "somewhere in Ecuador on horseback...