Word: greenback
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...wholly without foundation. Such statements touch my sense of humor. . . . As a Protestant myself, I deplore the circulation of these rumors, because they tend to arouse religious intolerance. . . . If there is any substantial num-ber of American citizens who believe this amusing but absurd story about the one-dollar greenback, what a field they would offer for Samson and his jawbone of an ass! In the Bible it is recorded (Judges XV, 15) that Samson "found a new jawbone of an ass and put forth his hand and took it and slew a thousand men therewith...
...been written by Garet Garett in his latest novel, The Driver. Mr. Fish was a railroad executive of the old order, rough and ready in speech, cautious in administration, scrupulously honorable in his engagements, and completely impatient of fallacious economics. Even in his youth he played his part against greenback inflation, and for the risky and speculative methods of Wall Street railroad amalgamation, whose excesses were justified only by their aggregate brilliant results, he had an inherent mistrust. He was a stubborn fighter but invariably a good loser. His resentment of the prohibition amendment, and his efforts for its repeal...
...Harvard men share in the prizes offered by Hart Schaffner and Marx for the best essays on economic subjects in the contest of 1920. For his thesis, "International Trade of the United States in the Greenback Period", F. D. Graham A.M. '17, P.H.D. '20, was awarded the second prize of $500 in class A, while $100 was given to R. D. Costigan '20 in class B for his study on "Nationalization of Collective Bargaining in the Men's Clothing Industry...