Word: goldens
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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When President Roosevelt took office, some $1,500,000,000 in gold money was in private hiding. His April 5 executive order calling for its return to the Federal Reserve by May 1 under pain of ten years imprisonment and $10,000 fine started a golden flood back to the Government which up to last week exceeded $800,000,000. But because thousands and thousands of citizens had never heard of the President's order or thought he was bluffing on his power to compel an exchange of metal for paper, $604,408,985 in gold and gold certificates...
...Reporter Hill 1912 was the golden year of newsstories. He covered the Herman Rosenthal case, his "favorite"' murder of all time; saw the S. S. Carpathia steam into New York harbor with Titanic survivors; covered the three-cornered presidential campaign. He has covered every major political campaign since then (except 1924). His return to reporting last week was with a dazzling flash: he got photographed with his first big interviewee, John P. Morgan...
...prove an insistent thorn in the side of the University, because of the great number of minors concentrated within these walls. Officials and others will use the certainty that the young are to be exposed to the evil influence as an argument against the introduction of the golden fluid. The obvious asininity of such arguments and of the clause in the law which gives them effect, is not in question. Since the law does exist, some way around it must be found; this could be taken care of by such an expedient as the issuance from University Hall of cards...
...year's estimated demand, of such bonded drinks legally exist. But that supply is 16 and more years old. Wholesale prices quoted last week for cases of 24 pint bottles included: WTood-ford Bourbon $27.50, King Cole Bourbon $35, Old Quaker Bourbon $38.50, Old Quaker Rye $42.50, Golden Wedding $43.50, Gibson $45 to $49-50, and $53-50 for Old Overholt, the good red liquor which, with Andrew William Mellon's aid, helped found the fortune of the late Henry Clay Frick...
Last week Henry Morgenthau Sr., 77, President Wilson's Ambassador to Turkey and father of President Roosevelt's Farm Board chairman, instead of quietly celebrating his golden wedding anniversary at home, spent it instead as head of the U. S. wheat delegation telling the other nations that the U. S. had changed its mind, was emphatically in favor of limiting wheat production. With him Mr. Morgenthau had an expert of the Federal Farm Board, Georg C. Haas to give technical advice. Third member of the U. S. delegation was Frederick E. Murphy, Republican publisher of the Minneapolis Tribune...