Word: silver
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...translated into their language and placed in the hands of every officer of their army. Lieutenant Colonels Hasabo, Chief of Staff of Japanese troops in Northern China, and Furujo, Commandant of Japanese troops at Tientsin recently presented Colonel Naylor with the Japanese translation of his work and a silver cigarette case...
Last week the final preparations were made for opening on Sept. 1 of a new government bank of issue, with a capital of 100,000,000 pesos ($50,000,000) which will circulate paper money. Hitherto practically all business transactions in Mexico have been made with gold or silver coin. In the financial district of the capital, messenger boys run from bank to bank carrying clinking bags of coin...
...Free Silver"-for nigh on 29 years it has had the freedom of the political grave. But how did the late William J. Bryan, its great proponent, regard it at the time of his death? The answer is contained in a letter written by Mr. Bryan two months ago to the New York Journal (Hearst) and recently published...
...went to serve as a nurse in the Cherbourg naval hospital. A severe wound forced her to leave the service. She was awarded the silver Medal of Honor. Flammarion made her his partner, collaborator, housekeeper. On Sept. 9, 1919, he married her. Their wedding caused the worthies of Juvissy to whisper the inevitable ribaldries that occur to the vulgar whenever an aging celebrity marries a young girl. It is only recently that the public has learned the part she actually took in his work...
Died. John Temple Graves, 68, famed journalist, "Silver-Tongued Orator from Dixie," onetime (1907-19) editorial and feature writer for the Hearst newspapers, old-school Democrat, ardent protagonist of the South's causes; in Washington, D. C, of a complication of diseases...