Search Details

Word: golds (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
Sort By: most recent first (reverse)


Usage:

Announcement was made last night from University Hall, that the building at present occupied by the Lampoon at the intersection of Mt. Auburn, Bow, and Plympton Streets, would be taken over by the University to serve as a dining hall of the "Gold Coast House" in the development of the House plan. This most recent and wholly unexpected move by the college authorities was made, according to statements issued by officials last night, as a direct result of the House plan number of the Lampoon, which went on sale yesterday evening...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Old, Lampoon Building Will Feed Residents of Gold Coast House | 2/9/1929 | See Source »

...Manhattan financier, presented last week to the Library of Congress a large collection of 16th Century manuscripts concerning the conquest of Mexico and Peru by Cortez, Pizarro and their successors. The documents included a bill of sale of Alvarado's armada to Pizarro and Almagro for 100,000 gold pesos; also, the Cabildo book of the City of the Frontier of the Chachapoyas telling of the assassination of Pizarro by Almagro...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Feb. 4, 1929 | 2/4/1929 | See Source »

...many thousand pounds at the current price and the sugar is shipped; 2) The seller collects his money in marks from the German Treasury, and the Reparations Commission then credits Germany with the amount of the payment, just as though it had been made to the Commission in gold; 3) Meanwhile the French dealer who received the sugar sells it and makes payment to the French-Government in francs, whereupon the Reparations-Commission certifies that France has received the German payment, just as though it had been made directly from Berlin to Paris in gold...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Sugar Swindle | 2/4/1929 | See Source »

...high seas last week was Montagu Collet Norman, governor of the Bank of England. On his ship, the Aquitania, was $7,500,000 in gold coming from the Bank of England to American Exchange Irving Trust Co., Manhattan bank...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business & Finance: Norman Coming | 2/4/1929 | See Source »

...when he took office, is now back to its normal $4.85) his movements arouse rumor, speculation. Financial sharps reported that he intended to visit Governor George L. Harrison of the New York Federal Reserve Bank, surmised that the two Governors might discuss some method of preventing further movements of gold from London to New York with out resorting to raising the British bank rate...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business & Finance: Norman Coming | 2/4/1929 | See Source »

Previous | 44 | 45 | 46 | 47 | 48 | 49 | 50 | 51 | 52 | 53 | 54 | 55 | 56 | 57 | 58 | 59 | 60 | 61 | 62 | 63 | 64 | Next