Word: golds
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Gold: The Agent General urges immediate resumption of gold coinage by Germany, since the "Gold reserves of the Reichsbank now stand at the highest point ever reached; and, for the greater part of this last year, the mark has been one of the strongest currencies in the world, from the standpoint of foreign exchanges...
Golden Pens. At the close of the Conference, last week, the Pacts were signed with august pomp. As gold pens scratched and Ambassador bowed to Ambassador, the parable of "mother, father and children" seemed to evaporate and vanish. In the iridescent words of President-Elect Herbert Hoover, uttered at Buenos Aires (TIME, Dec. 31): "There are no young, independent sovereign nations, there are no older and younger brothers of the American continent. All are of the same age from a political and spiritual viewpoint, and the only difference between them is the different historic moment in their economic progress...
...Mohammedan communities throughout the world. Thus the faithful are provided with a priceless boon. Holy Water in which a descendant of Prophet Mohammed has laved himself. No niggard, the Aga Khan charges for the really enormous quantity of water in which he bathes each year, only his weight in gold. The ceremony of weighing His Highness takes place each twelvemonth at Aga Hall, Bombay; and then and there the golden wage is payed by representatives of the various Mohammedan sects. No fool, the Aga Khan keeps fat. Also he is at pleasure to stand in with the British Government,* which...
Since it is the virile Mohammedans and not the lackadaisical, jabbering Hindus who might be expected to strike a blow for "Dominion Status," the service of His Highness the Aga Khan to Britain, last week, was worth incalculably more than even the fat Khan's great weight in gold...
...state that it is a picturesque thoroughfare which leads off Memorial Drive a block beyond the John W. Weeks Memorial bridge. It is a very pleasant location for an embryonic organism, within view of capsizing single scullers on the Charles River, and amidst other renovated homes, painted like Old Gold cigarette packages, chrome, white and red. The Psychological Clinic, as it is called, contains a lecture room, reading and meeting room, waiting room, four consultation rooms, and two experimental rooms. On two afternoons a week students and instructors and a few practising physicians of Boston gather in the meeting room...