Word: presented
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Extension of the President's power to reset the gold content of the dollar as low as 50% of its old value (present value 59?). The Administration has not used this power, has no present plans for using it except in some emergency if the pound sterling and the franc should collapse. The Senate proposed to let this power (a threat of inflation) expire-in effect, to take it back into the hands of Congress until it is again needed...
When a certain train out of Chicago paused in Crown Point, Ind. last week, a tall, robust male of 47 who looked like a white-headed Indian chief descended to the station platform. With a moment-of-destiny air he announced to the reporters present: "I want to put my foot on Indiana soil...
...Americans always demanded (and most of the time got) safe conduct for their refugees to the border. Argentina once threatened to send a battleship to Spain to protect refugees held at the summer embassy in San Sebastian, and Argentine protection allowed Ramon Serrano Suner, Minister of Interior in the present Franco Cabinet, to escape from a Madrid prison to Nationalist territory. Peru at one time protected 360 Nationalists...
...American Civil Liberties Union, since March, has accumulated a resounding voice of 86 radio stations in 35 States for its 15-minute, free weekly scripts, Civil Liberties in the News, presented as "a commentary on the present-day struggle to preserve the Bill of Rights for all people throughout our country...
...which the U. S. has never had an adequate supply. Most costly evidence of the fact is the $1,175,000,000 of defaulted bonds outstanding which foreigners (Germany: 26.4%) owe U. S. investors. This week, however, the U. S. acquired a very competent specimen of the breed-a present from Adolf Hitler. He is Otto Jeidels (pronounced Yi-dels), a tall handsome man with a twinkle in his eye, who habitually talks so fast that no one else can get in a word. Before teller purged German banking he was only one size smaller than Hjalmar Schacht himself...