Word: silver
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...official celebration of the King's and Queen's Silver Jubilee was held last June (TIME, June...
Mark Sullivan, Washington correspondent, vouched for the fact that Bryan for two years before the 1896 Democratic Convention had been stumping up and down the Missouri Valley speaking for free silver, hammering out the similes and metaphors and phrases that went into the making of the "Cross of Gold" speech. Several people testified that Bryan had his plans for capturing the Democratic nomination in 1896 laid long in advance, had asked at least one delegate to the convention, Colonel Franklin Pierce Morgan, a newspaperman, to vote for him, had secured for himself the last place on the list of speakers...
...delegate to the Democratic Convention in Chicago in 1896?the beginning of his political ascendency. He went to speak for the farmers of the West who believed their troubles were caused by a shortage of currency. He went to the Convention demanding the free and unlimited coinage of silver, crying: "You shall not press down upon the brow of labor this crown of thorns. You shall !not crucify mankind upon a cross of gold...
When 1904 came the Democrats decided to try another candidate. They chose Alton B. Parker, who repudiated free silver. Mr. Bryan grumbled but stood aside and saw Parker go down to a bitter defeat before Roosevelt...
...Newberry Medal, established by one Frederic G. Melcher of Manhattan and awarded annually by the Association "for the most distinguished contribution to literature for children," was presented to Charles J. Finger, author-explorer-sheepraiser of Fayetteville, Ark., for his Talcs from Silver Lands...