Word: redeem
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...night of hectic rumors passed before Finance Minister Havenga stated with crisp, Dutch lucidity exactly what the Cabinet had done and what its action means. "The only way to prevent a financial disaster of the first magnitude," said Minister Havenga. "was to release the Reserve Bank from liability to redeem its notes in gold. . . . The Government did so release the Reserve Bank and thereby it cut the link by which South African currency was a currency on the gold standard...
...original story, because he has been converted, but for reasons of gallantry, which Director De Mille considered more affecting. As rewritten by Paramount's Scenarists Sidney Birchman and Waldemar Young, The Sign of the Cross is a Roman holiday of semi-civilized sentiment which is likely to redeem the $600,000 it cost, validate Director De Mille's dictum that no religious cinema has ever failed. Typical shot: Christians in a dungeon, waiting to be martyred, with a young and handsome female Christian under a beam of light in the centre...
...shock. The culprit was one of her best friends, Mrs. Whitney Endt, 28, wife of an insurance broker, future heiress to a comfortable fortune, often a welcome guest in the Browne home. Mrs. Endt, who recently lost a child and suffered injuries in a motor wreck, weepingly promised to redeem the $2,000 worth of jewels from pawnbrokers. Police opinion: kleptomania...
...Have $50,000 ready, $25,000 in $20 bills $15,000 in $10 bills and $10,000 in $5 bills Have them in two packages. Four days we will inform you to redeem the money...
...only laughs at family tradition and says he was never made to be a priest. But one day, when the boy Rochus is in danger, his mother vows to the Virgin that she will make him a priest. Soon after this she dies; and Rochus feels obliged to redeem her pledge. Perplexed and without faith, he journeys to Rome. He feels there the overpowering force of the Catholic Church to the extent of pledging his life to her service, though he can never forget his love. Later, he is sent back to the hamlet that was his home...