Word: licinius
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Dates: during 1933-1933
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...inflation, Michigan's Senator Vandenberg dramatically presented him with a 100,000,000,000-mark note which he explained was now worth 2½?. To shame gold-greedy Republicans, Louisiana's Long dipped into Roman history and plucked out as a horrible example Triumvir Marcus Licinius Crassus (115-53 B. C.). According to Senator Long, opulent Crassus, after bleeding the citizenry of Rome of all its gold, was put to death by having the molten metal poured down his throat...
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