Word: mines
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...then proceeding to buy 50,000,000 ounces of silver each month (20% to 30% of total world production per year), the Treasury would put up silver prices to great heights, give large profits to silver speculators and to the big copper and lead companies who mine most of U. S. silver, and greatly please the seven states* which mine 95% of the U. S. silver output. Meanwhile the U. S. Treasury would have to pay for large quantities of silver to be buried in its vaults and several hundred million dollars of currency would be paid out to silver...
...choice of aids is a function of the Chief Marshal and, since Hanfstaengel was a friend of mine in college, it was natural that I should choose him as one of the fifty aids. Moreover, I felt that, the alumni exercises being a strictly intimate Harvard family affair, any alumnus should be welcomed back. The very fact that it happened to be a university alumni gathering made it even more certain that one could entertain people of varying beliefs, for freedom of thought and speech is the breath of life of a real university. I regret that Hanfstaengel finds...
...June. In Berlin last week, invitation in hand, exuberant, psychic Herr Hanfstaengl bubbled: "I am looking forward to the reunion with the greatest anticipation. I may even, as a surprise, take with me my film, Hans Westmar [TIME, Dec. 25]. That film can show better than any words of mine what we Nazis stand...
This Man is Mine (RKO). In this display of misery at the country club, Irene Dunne is a smug painter married to a bovine playboy (Ralph Bellamy). When she makes a picture of three trees standing on a hillside to symbolize themselves and their small son, he resumes an old romance with a handsome young divorcée (Constance Cummings). This leads to adjustments in which 1) Ralph Bellamy punches Constance Cummings; 2) Irene Dunne smashes a picture frame on Ralph Bellamy...
This Man is Mine is a pipsqueak problem play afflicted with banality and complications. Typical speech (Bellamy to Cummings): "You and I belong to each other...