Word: papered
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...letter from John H. Hammond Jr., Hotchkiss School, Lakeville, Conn., was published in your paper. In your subsequent editions of May 21 and June 4 you have referred to it as John H. Hammond Jr. and consequently this has been attributed by some to John Hays Hammond Jr., the well known inventor and scientist at Gloucester, Mass...
Triumphantly passed by the Chamber, 450 to 22 and by the Senate 256 to 3 last week, was a bill, fixing the value of one paper franc at 65.5 milligrams of gold, 900/1,000ths fine...
...confidence-inspiring power of his personality, M. Poincare caused the franc to double in value without resorting to a foreign loan (TIME, January 3, 1927). That value has been kept stable de facto for 18 months; and now it becomes the approximate stabilized value de jure. For the present, paper francs will be exchangeable for gold bullion and only in relatively large blocs. This will be followed by a new gold coinage and soon almost every French peasant will again jingle gold in his sock. The gold bullion prelude to gold coins is well precedented since the same procedure...
...journalists, few laymen, know Mr. Ochs owns the Chattanooga (Tenn.) Times. Grateful Chattanoogans last week were preparing an elaborate celebration of the soth anniversary of his purchase of the paper...
...James A. Stillman.' Having got that down on paper and looked at it, I hardly know how to go on. It's one thing to have fifteen or twenty people shouting a lot of questions at you at once. It's an experience, I might say, that I've got quite used to. But it's another thing to sit down and try to think up both questions and answers...