Word: pesetas
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...children, was a story about a 10-year-old Spaniard named Rafael and a donkey he found abandoned at the foot of a cliff. Uncle Bastiano and Aunt Ana did not care for their nephew's asinine Juanita. On St. Anthony's Eve, Rafael begged a peseta on the road, set out to have Juanita bedecked and blessed next day in front of the church. "Surely," thought he, "the Gentle Lord would heed his prayer that he and Juanita might not be separated." Sure enough, after the priest blessed Juanita, along with other donkeys, mules and horses...
...outbreak of the War President Wilson called Mr. Davis to Washington as a $1-a-year man in the Treasury, sent him to Spain to stabilize the peseta and thus facilitate U. S. Army purchases there. In Paris he served as a member of the Supreme Economic Council, the Armistice Commission, the Reparations Commission, the U. S. Peace Commission. When France imposed its first indemnity on Germany, Mr. Davis exclaimed: "The French have not only plucked this bird but now they're going to keep it from flying." During the last nine months of the Wilson Administration as Undersecretary...
...Spanish peseta, still stamped with the portrait of Alfonso XIII, slumped last week to a new low for all time: 11.56 pesetas to the dollar (at par 5.18 pesetas equal...
Spanish Reaction. The peseta held steady on news of disestablishment, rising fractionally from 11.06 to 11.12 to the dollar in Madrid. Riots between Catholics and anti-Catholics occurred at Barcelona and Valladolid but Spain as a whole remained calm. "In my opinion," declared President Azana immediately after taking office, "Spain has ceased to be a Roman Catholic country...
...wine, etc.) to Britain, made clear that the escudo will cling to the pound. This worried Spaniards. They sell to Britons sherry, etc. Anxiously Madrid foresaw that Portugal, by letting her escudo slide with sterling, will be able to offer drink, etc. to thirsty Britons cheaper than Spain, whose peseta is semi-stabilized on a gold basis. Gold Standard-"Cross of Gold?" Sacrosanct to most bankers though the Gold Standard is, rumblings came from some quarters last week remindful of William Jennings Bryan, "free silver," "16 to i" and "You shall not crucify mankind upon a cross of gold...