Word: guilders
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Invisible Empire. Far beyond these visible outlines extends the invisible empire of the Dollar. Ten billion dollars, in full battle array, are yearly fighting the pound sterling, the franc, the guilder, the mark for supremacy...
...Currencies were crashing all around us, and while the guilder held firm [at about 40?] we didn't know what might happen. . . . We decided that America's indorsement of our solvency would be of great value, and went to America for money. Since then most of that loan has been bought back by Dutch investors. Our finance, gentlemen, is sound...
Later in the week the Dutch guilder became worth 40.45 cents, a fourth of a cent above its par value (40.20 cents). The difference made gold worth shipping to Holland, and Manhattan bankers hastened to load $4,000,000 in gold on the S. S. Veendam, just as she was at the point of departing from Manhattan. The shipment was the first to Holland since before...
...German guilder varied with the time and place. The present-day guilder is a Dutch coin worth about 40? (exchange is nearly normal); and 1,000 guilders would be, therefore, about...
...surface. He commonly went by the code name in office conversation. . . . Colonel George B. M. Harvey was 'Sawpit'; James Gordon Bennett came over the cable as 'Gaiter' and William R. Hearst as 'Gush.' For William J. Bryan, two code designations were used: 'Guilder' and 'Maxilla,' the latter possibly a delicate reference to jaw. Pomeroy Burton became 'Gumbo,' perhaps as he himself said because he was 'so often in the soup.' The code amused Mr. Pulitzer and he was forever tinkering with...