Word: golds
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Celebrities follow bright rainbows to pots of shining gold. The U. S. pot is most golden. Therefore choicest celebrities from overseas swarm into it, simmer, exude the essences of genius. Last week the pot seemed brimming full. Choice dumplings were...
...Molnar the pot of gold at the end of the rainbow is an old, jaded story, and the fleshpot an older. His successive wives have meant much to him, but so have the enormous slumbers and epicurean dinners which he loves. His selfishness is not the mystic ego culture of Count Keyserling but something earthy, practical...
...factors made prudent and possible the act of M. le President: 1) The Bank of France now holds sufficient gold or foreign securities to redeem every centime of the national paper currency, apt to be presented, at its present value of 25 francs to the dollar; 2) So great is the reviving confidence of French peasants in securities payable in francs that they are now buying and stuffing them into stockings at such a rate that urban French capitalists are left with a legitimate surplus of capital for investment abroad. A further prop to French financial stability...
Such payments are the keystone of the Dawes Plan and offer the only possible way that Germany can transfer credits so huge that their movement, if made in gold, would disrupt international exchange. The frauds detected, last week, amounted to giving "short measure" to the reputed extent of $12,000,000. To understand how this was done, recall the normal method of paying reparations in kind...
Problem: to transfer gold from the German to the French government through the sole medium of hops...