Word: golds
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...with confidence to take the four great steps in financial policy to which he is pledged: 1) amortization of the floating debt by a large internal loan; 2) ratifications (possibly after renegotiation) of the Franco-U. S. and Franco-British debt settlements; 3) restoration of the franc to a gold basis, probably at the present stabilized rate of 25 francs to one dollar; 4) acceptance from Germany of a (reduced) lump sum in payment of her reparations, this sum to be derived from the sale of the German railway bonds now held by the Reparations Commission...
Three of the four Fletcher Brothers own two gold mines in the lovely, salubrious Pis-Pis region of Nicaragua. The fourth Fletcher Brother, who has no interest in the mines, is the U. S. Ambassador to Italy, suave Henry Prather Fletcher. Last week President James Gilmore Fletcher of the mining corporations and his co-owning brothers, G. Fred & D. Watson Fletcher, all of Manhattan, were irate. President Fletcher dashed to Washington to inform Secretary of State Frank Billings Kellogg that much was amiss in the valley of the purling Pis-Pis River. The Fletcher mines had been seized, he declared...
...what is your name?" said the official to Chance Stow's companion, a slinking, shabbily dressed, ebony adolescent, with a scooped face, pointed ears, piggish eyes and a gold tooth...
Burning Daylight. Milton Sills is a red-hot rip-snorter of Alaska-so hot that he calls himself Burning Daylight. He finds gold, all right. He takes it to San Francisco, where he blunders into polite society. The slick city men hornswoggle him when he plays the stock market. But, finally, by virile tactics, he gets even with them and marches out of their office with a big black bag containing $3,000,000. Then dat ole debbil Burning Daylight says to his sweetheart (Mrs. Milton Sills, the onetime Doris Kenyon): "Let's go back to Alaska." And, three...
...Play Girl. Again, gold is dug and various parts of the female form peep out from silken things. The form belongs to Madge Bellamy, who plays a girl in a flower shop at the Ritz-Plaza...