Word: money
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...unfinished money bill's provision against further buying of foreign silver last week caused near-panic in Mexico. In the U. S. all foreign bar silver available was rushed to the mints. The world price dropped to 38? per oz. (from 43? at the first of the week...
...Eighteen thousand moneyed "metropolitanites" in Manhattan have: 1) $10,000 to $25,000 a year in income; and 2) "the common denominator of swift spending that barely catches up to their expanding wants." A family with $18,000 a year may spend $2,000 to $3,000 for rent; $1,800 to $2,100 for food; $900 for a nurse; $300 to $350 for liquor; $900 for a maid; $100 for flowers; $1,500 to $2,000 for clothes; $1,800 for life insurance, savings; $1,000 to $1,200 on the man's "cash expense at business...
...American Legion connections are nationwide, and the Legion membership is now in its political prime. He has an executive record uncomplicated by such national issues as Relief, Money, Neutrality. Above all he has absolute mastery of Indiana through a machine that is as old-fashioned in its efficiency as it is modern in its setup. Indiana has only 14 electoral votes to offer, only 28 delegates in the National Democratic Convention. But Paul McNutt can count on delivering these white chips with greater certainty than even Cordell Hull can be sure of Tennessee or Jack Garner of Texas. At this...
...Like a crazy dream, first one spectator, then another, scampered onto the course, mounted riderless horses, took them over the remaining jumps and finished on the heels of the horse & rider that had stuck together. When the results were posted, the horses with railbirds up took second and third money. No New Zealander raised an eyebrow. For it is a common occurrence Down Under-just as it was a common occurrence in the U. S. up to the turn of the Century. Only stipulation: the railbird must not weigh less than the original jockey...
Oddest quirk in the saga of Jimmy-in-Hollywood is that under another name Mr. Roosevelt might well make more money. When Cinemagnate Goldwyn hired him last year, just as Trust Buster Thurman Arnold had poised his ax over the cinema industry, Hollywood feared that if he were paid too much he would be resented as a last-minute Pocahontas. Jimmy Roosevelt has stayed as far away from the antitrust prosecutions as possible, although he was named as a defendant in the Goldwyn suit. He has served as Goldwyn representative on the board of United Artists and as Mr. Goldwyn...