Word: precious
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Half a Kingdom. Fat Chaps held out to the acquisitive, Semitic Emperor a promise of at least $15,000,000 per year-triple Ethiopia's present revenue-if Power of Trinity would sign away for 75 years virtually all subsoil rights-precious metals and chemical substances as well as oil-in something more than half the Ethiopian Empire...
...hand, but the issue before the Cabinet was primarily how to protect British investments in the Sudan and along the Blue Nile which is fed from Tana, Ethiopia's great lake. Tana is so placed among rocky crags that a little earnest dynamiting would divert its precious waters from the Blue Nile toward Ethiopian plains now dry but capable of becoming a second fruitful Egypt. The loss to British investors in the Sudan would be colossal, that to British prestige in Africa irretrievable. Last week sword-handy Britons of the more resolute school, such as General Sir Archibald Montgomery...
Most Buddha relics are in Siam and in Japan's great shrine at Mt. Hiei. Buddhists attach no miracle-working powers to them. When Bishop Masuyama arrived in San Francisco on the Taiyo Maru, he and the precious bonelet were escorted by numerous Buddhists to their drab, unimposing Temple at Pine and Octavia Streets. All the Buddhists meditated quietly. Then the Bishop took Buddha's bone to his nearby home where, because of its great value, he planned to keep it until a suitable new temple might be built...
...kind. Senator Thomas of Oklahoma was incensed. That Secretary Morgenthau should let the market drop out from under the speculators, that he should build up a silver reserve as cheaply as possible instead of spending as much as possible in doing so, seemed treason to the most politically precious of metals. "I thought," said Senator Thomas, "that we had a silver policy. But we haven't any ? other than to buy silver at the lowest possible price." Next day Senator Thomas and his silver friend, Senator McCarran of Nevada, took their revenge. As the price of passing...
...Ambassador to Japan, sailed through the Golden Gate into San Francisco Bay. One evening last week Robert Worth Bingham, U. S. Ambassador to the Court of St. James's, embarked at Southampton, sailed down the Solent. In Copenhagen Madam Minister Ruth Bryan Owen packed her trunks, stowing away precious Eskimo costumes brought as trophies from Greenland. In Budapest, U. S. Minister John Flournoy Montgomery looked at the lush trees of Andrássy Utca, wondered whether their leaves would have turned before he saw them again. In Cairo, U. S. Envoy Bert Fish, in Warsaw, U. S. Envoy John...