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...money, silver-tongued Bryan pounded home a 24-carat political fantasy: the bigger the money supply, the more for everyone. Bryan's particular panacea, a switch from gold to silver as the basis for an expanded currency, was discredited after his defeat by Republican William McKinley. But the easy-v. tight-money controversy, bitterly disputed ever since the founding of the American Colonies, is far from dead. Last week it was livelier than ever. The question: Is money so scarce that it is pinching off the boom and threatening to plunge the U.S. into recession...
...assemblage of campaign pins for a period of some eight years, and numbers within his collection pins dating back to the second nomination of Ulysses Simpson Grant in 1872, and continuing up to the present campaign. The most valuable items in the collection are two large buttons for the McKinley inauguration in 1900 and for his first nomination in 1896. Among Sugar's more than 3,000 buttons are ones for William Jennings Bryan, Samuel Tilden, Rutherford B. Hayes, Wendell Wilkie, Alfred Landon, Alfred Smith, Herbert Hoover and Alton B. Parker...
...French Revolution), the New York Yankees' baseball contracts from 1927, the signature of General Abner Doubleday, the founder of the National Game of Baseball; and the autographs of U. S. Grant, Abraham Lincoln, Robert E. Lee, Chester Alan Arthur, Thomas Nast, and all the Presidents since William McKinley...
Most of the agitation against the U.S. concerned old Fort McKinley on Manila's southeast outskirts. Fort McKinley, taken out of service after World War II, has been eyed by real-estate promoters who would like to subdivide it. Two years ago Attorney General Brownell rendered an opinion that the U.S. has legal title to Philippine lands bought from private owners; most of Fort McKinley was bought in this manner long before World War I. In the mouths of Filipino extremists, this claim to "title" became a nasty assertion of "sovereignty...
...There report on the first of his three nominations for the presidency. Ainslie Pryor, as Bryan, got a rococo fervor into his big "Cross of Gold" speech that captured the deadlocked convention and enabled the Great Commoner to enter-and lose-the presidential race against William McKinley. Circle Theater took another aghast look at Communist intrigue with The Case of Colonel Petrov,who defected two years ago from the Soviet embassy in Australia. As pictured on TV by Michael Gorrin, Petrov seemed far too dumb to have been head of Red espionage down under, and the show spent much...