Word: guilders
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Passage of this 97-word bill by the House of Representatives last week caused intense financial excitement abroad. In Paris the dollar slumped below the gold point (25.3562 francs). The Federal Reserve Bank in New York kept telephoning the Bank of France to buy dollars. The guilder, the Swiss franc and the belga soared to year-high values against the dollar...
...Raising of Lazarus, considered by many as one of his most important products, is being included on this present showing at Fogg. Other well known works of Rembrandt which are being shown include the Hundred Guilder Print, Three Crosses, Lutma, Clement de Johnge, Goldweigher's Field, and Christ Presented to the People...
Officials of the Museum praised the exhibit saying that it showed the master's versatility, in its wide range of subjects and also shows the best of his work in every sort of subject. They mentioned as having especial importance the "Raising of Lazarus", "Hundred Guilder Print". "Three Crosses", "Lutma", "Clement de Jonghe", "Goldweigher's Field", and "Christ Presented to the People". An early and a late state of the latter illustrate the change which Rembrandt made in his plates as the conception of the subject changed in his mind...