Word: silver
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...silver dollars which are just appearing in Cambridge are a temporary expedient occasioned by unusual circumstances," said Professor A. A. Young in explaining the little-known reasons for their coinage to his class on Money and Banking yesterday. "Secretary Mellon does not intend the silver dollars as a permanent addition to the circulating medium...
...Paine's silver-white hair is parted carefully in the middle. His eyes twinkle. His complexion is rosy and his features-especially his nose-are sharp. This is the man who for years was editor of The St. Nicholas League, who has written dozens of books for grown-ups and children, whose first published volume was of poems, in collaboration with his great friend, William Allen White, and called Rhymes by Two Friends...
...majestic notes of Longhi's pontifical march, blared out by six silver trumpets, apprised waiting throngs of the Holy Father's arrival in the portico. After a pause, during which the Fathed donned his white and gold mitre and changed from the closed sedan to the famed sedia gestoria, the procession crossed the portico to where the papal throne had been set before the Holy Door of St. Peter's. There the Pope descended and, while all knelt, approached the throne, accompanied by two attendants holding flabelli-great ostrich-feather fans-on either side of his head...
...Congress proposes making the Lieutenants, Majors; the Sergeants, First Lieutenants; giving each $10,000 and a Congressional Medal of Honor. The War Department, announcing a list of belated citations for gallantry in the Spanish American War, named Lieut. John J. Pershing (now General retired) to be honored with a silver star. The frigate Constitution, several times near destruction, saved once by Oliver Wendell Holmes' Old Ironsides, is suffering from the decay of age. Rear Admiral de Steiguer made it known that Secretary of the Navy Wilbur meditates calling on the children of the Nation for pennies to save...
...shipping and coal and iron mines, to street railways, to banking. Then he branched into politics. He worked with William McKinley; and finally, in 1896, got McKinley the Republican presidential nomination, became Chairman of the Republican National Committee and won the great campaign which ensued against Bryan and "free silver." Within a short time, there was an opportune vacancy in the Senate and the Governor of Ohio appointed Hanna to succeed Senator John Sherman...