Word: minting
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...sports, followed by dancing in the streets. Thursday night's specialty this year was to be a tennis match between Ellsworth Vines and Fred Perry at the Jefferson County Armory. Friday night festivities were the Derby Eve Ball, an all-star wrestling program, and the annual reunion banquet & mint-julep shower of Kentucky Colonels. Saturday is the Derby...
...looking souls who may have been frightened by stern letters of invitation, of would-be office holders, of nobodies whose sense of importance was enlarged by attending a $100 dinner. Two noteworthy guests were Messrs. Walter P. Chrysler and William Green. Madam Secretary Perkins and Madam Director of the Mint Ross were among the very few women guests, for most Democrats did not put up an extra $100 to feed their wives...
...Named after the pyx used for the same purpose in the British mint. Pyxis, the Greek and Latin word for a box, derives from pyxos, the boxwood tree...
...debased or made worse as to the proportion of fine gold or fine silver therein contained or shall be of less weight or value than the same ought to be ... through the default or connivance of any of the officers or person who shall be employed at the said Mint . . . every such officer or person . . shall be deemed guilty of Felony and shall suffer death." Today this penalty has been modified to read that if the President so decides "the officers implicated . . . shall be thenceforward disqualified from holding their respective offices." Since 1792 there has been a annual assay commission...
...clock one morning last week in a sunlit room of the great white marble U. S. Mint in Philadelphia, the guardians of honest money assembled to do their annual duty. The testers were mostly deserving Democrats appointed by the President: Judge John H. Druffel of the Court of Common Pleas at Cincinnati, Mayor James H. Hurley of Willimantic, Conn., Mrs. Katharine Elkus White, Democratic leader of Red Bank, N. J., Novelist Owen Johnson of Stockbridge, Mass., a realtor from Manhattan, a club woman from Baltimore, an insurance man from Jersey City, etc., etc. Also present as ex-officio testers were...