Word: minting
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...strength of this international agreement the President proclaimed that the U. S. Mint would take all silver henceforth mined in the U. S., would coin half of it into dollars, half-dollars, quarters and dimes which would be handed back to the producers. The other half the Government would keep for its trouble. Since by law 50 ounces of silver make $64.50 in coins, silver miners would receive that amount for every 100 ounces they produced, or 64 1/2? per ounce, about 21? more than the current market price...
...earlier in the week, newshawks spotted little William Woodin scurrying out of the White House carrying a leather case under his arm. "What have you got there?" they asked. "Medallions of the President," said the nominal Secretary of the Treasury, "and they are going right back to the Philadelphia Mint to be made over. The President doesn't like them. They make him too young and show him wearing an Army hair-cut." Next day the President made over his Treasury Department command...
...years ago, Dr. Oliver Mitchell Wentworth Sprague, more recently adviser to the Bank of England; noted youngish Dean Acheson, retiring Undersecretary of the Treasury, tall, lean and dark; noted a couple of assistant secretaries, the Comptroller of the Currency, the Commissioner of Industrial Alcohol, the Directress of the Mint, the Chief of the Secret Service, a member of the Federal Reserve Board; noted, also, standing in the background but apart from Dr. Sprague, two other economists, Professor James Harvey Rogers of Yale, unofficial financial adviser to the Administration, and the man who 20 years ago had taught agricultural economics...
...goldminers may export their output through the Federal Reserve. Last week as the first shipment (4,200 oz. troy) left Manhattan, gold soared to $31.69 an ounce. Old price paid by the U. S. Mint...
...Banister, smart, vivacious, blue-eyed and sixtyish, is the second woman to get an upper berth in the Treasury from President Roosevelt. The first was Nellie Tayloe Ross, onetime Governor of Wyoming, now Director of the Mint...