Word: peg
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...cannot be immediately improvised either in New York or in Paris." Almighty Dollar, Mighty Franc. British bankers might whistle last week, French and U. S. bankers might sympathize, might aid * but Greeks, Turks, Brazilians and such put John Bull's pound pudding to the proof. Greece, which has pegged her drachma to the British pound for years, switched last week, pegged it to the dollar. Small Danzig did likewise with her gulden. Great Brazil, whose 20 United States are larger than the 48 U. S. states, began at once to collect certain taxes on a dollar basis, despite...
...given his first part, later appearing with Ellen Terry, Sir Gerald du Maurier and other notables in the British theatre's heyday. He first went to the U. S. to act Love Among The Lions, in 1910. Since then he has lent his amiable presence to Peg O' My Heart, Bull-Dog Drummond, The Last of Mrs. Cheyney, The First Mrs. Fraser...
...Actress Taylor (Peg o' My Heart, Out There, The National Anthem) he telephoned the information. Miss Taylor (now Mrs. J. Hartley Manners) remembered a brother had opened an account for her with $590. Compound interest had brought the amount to about $1,000. Said...
What then are we to think? Are these New Yorkers trying to take us down a peg? Have we at last come face to face with a much talked of spectre of contemporary existence? Inferiority complex, that's what it is. Put yourself in the place of those benighted New Yorkers. New York's drawing rooms are full of old southern kunnels. And they know where they came from. They haven't forgiven Cromwell yet for chopping off King Charles's head. And these Bostonians! Well, not everybody is a Mayflower descendant, but they have a way of looking...
Ever since the Board declared it would not peg prices for the 1931 wheat crop, its 1930 holdings have threatened the market with a selling avalanche. What, became the big wheat question, did the Farm Board propose to do with its supply? Hold it off the market? Dump it at every price rise? Dribble it out steadily...