Word: golds
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First Family. Billy Knowland was no ordinary kid growing up around Alameda; he was a Knowland of California. His grandfather had come West from New York to dig for gold, instead found wealth in an empire of lumber, shipping, mining and banking interests. Billy's father, Joseph Russell Knowland ("J.R." to most of California and "Papoo" to his now-adult grandchildren), served in the state assembly, the state senate, and was elected five times to the U.S. House of Representatives. Defeated as the Republican candidate for the U.S. Senate in 1914, J.R. bought into the Oakland Tribune (1956 circ...
From an Old Enemy. The reason for Franco's sudden mildness was not far to seek. Since 1936 Russia has been sitting on more than half a billion dollars worth of Spanish gold. When the civil war was only three months old, pro-Communist Finance Minister Juan Negrin secretly ordered 7,800 crates of gold out of the Bank of Spain, had it trucked to Cartagena and then shipped to Russia in charge of four bank officials, for "safekeeping." The Russians kept the Loyalist officials in Moscow for months, counting and recounting the gold. By the time they were...
...years, the Russians rebuffed attempts by both Franco and the Republican government in exile to recover the gold on the ground that it recognized neither of them-or, for that matter, their claims. But just two months ago, 64-year-old Juan Negrin died in Paris. Before he died, the Franco government claimed, Negrin willed his old enemy Franco the receipts for the long-disputed gold. With this documentary evidence, Spanish officials are now hopeful that they can force or cajole the Russians into repaying the gold...
Died. William Addison Dwiggins, 76, top-ranking U.S. type designer, who produced the clean, legible Metro newspaper type and the Caledonia and Electra book faces, fulminated at U.S. banknote design: "It is worth its face in gold, but my God, what a face!", wrote the authoritative book, Layout in Advertising; after a stroke; in Hingham, Mass...
NOVEMBER A Cambridge Crime Commission accuses Harvard Criminoligist William McCord of being the local Mafia leader. Atomic submarine the Nautilus is destroyed by an unknown assailant. A Radcliffe senior finds a pot of gold at rainbow's end and walks away from it. "I don't accept presents from a strange Man." The Brattle Theater purchases Radio City...