Word: silver
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Last week, the Treasury Department put a surprise in its employes' pay envelopes. It put a silver dollar in each-not as an addition to their pay, but as part of it. What the employes said is not known...
...West, these cartwheels are still in considerable circulation, but the East has manifested a decided preference for the paper silver certificates. It happens, however, that it costs the Government about 3% a year for the upkeep of paper bills-replacement, washing, etc. The actual silver coin is much cheaper to keep in circulation. Some 30 million silver cartwheels are in the Treasury and may be put in circulation. The Government decided to be economical and pass them out instead of paper money...
...present incumbent of York is a mighty man in England, The Right Hon. and Most Rev. Cosmo Gordon Lang, D.D. His silk stockings and silver slippers are known throughout the land. On industrial problems his words carry an almost pontifical authority. When he speaks, England harkens...
...American Farm Bureau Federation; W. J. Brown, President of the American Wheat Growers, Inc.; H. L. Keefe, President of the United States Grain Growers, Inc.; Fred A. Mullage, President of the Illinois Farmers' Elevator Association, and several others of like experience. Among these men is Gray Silver. It is Gray Silver who has been chosen to head this tremendous project of the farmers. The public does not know Gray Silver very well, but any Con- gressman or any farmer knows all about him. Gray Silver is the Legislative Agent of the Farm Bureau Federation. He is the Federation...
...Story. Pollyanna Whittier, inventor of the famed "glad game" (which consists of picking out silver linings for all the blackest clouds), marries Jimmy Pendleton in Chapter One and becomes forthwith "just the entrancing, glad little bride you would expect her (from the previous Pollyanna books**) to be." It rains on her wedding-day, Jimmy hasn't much money, their apartment looks out on fire-escapes, Jimmy eats up the chicken-salad she was saving for dinner, just because he happens to find it alone and unprotected in the icebox - but things of this sort are, to Pollyanna, merely added...