Word: lei
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...under way, set New York society columnists to twittering over the new nightspots and their patrons. Most twittery spot: the new Hawaiian Maisonette of the swank St. Regis Hotel. Most twittered-of socialites: Tobacco Millionheiress Doris Duke and her husband James Henry Roberts Cromwell, who was photographed in a lei, hula-hulaing with bare-foot Hawaiian...
...Schlesinger, friend of the late great Refugee Worker Dr. Fridtjof Nansen. It consists, in its simplest terms, of an international corporation for trading in refugees. Capital for this company, tentatively called "International Resettlement Co.," would take the form of billions of dollars of blocked German marks, Hungarian pengos, Rumanian lei, etc., now owed refugees and foreign investors who cannot collect them outside the countries in question. The corporation would contract to evacuate a batch of refugees, offering the emigrating country a sizable sum in blocked currency which would be spent within that country for industrial and capital goods which...
...thus have in their records canceled checks showing that they do not deal with Nazi Germany. The American dollars are then forwarded from London to Germany thus allowing the Nazi regime to build up its foreign exchange balance. Meanwhile, Germany buys the Rumanian furs, paying for them in lei that were placed to its credit in Rumania as a result of barter arrange- ments. ... As the Rumanian money has little value in the foreign exchange marts, the German Government gains materially by an exchange of this money for American exchange...
...Bucharest, Rumania, onetime Sexton Ion Glicherie was arrested for selling space in Heaven to peasants at 16 lei (16?) per square yard...
...bleeding petitioner was led away, Rumanian police redoubled their raiding zeal, had 12,000 people in jail by nightfall. Said Bucharest's Chief of Police: "Anyhow, 20 of these suspects have turned out to be engaged in speculating illegally against the Rumanian lei...