Word: silver
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...first meeting of the newly appointed Silver Bay Committee will be held at 1.30 today in Randolph Breakfast Room, when plans for the coming year will be discussed, and tentative arrangements made...
...Tibbetts '26 will address the meeting, and will discuss the work that the conference does at Silver Bay. Although the meeting is intended primarily for members of the committee, any men in the University who are interested have been invited to be present...
...invests in a buried bone. A peasant invests in a silver filled stocking. A fool invests in wildcat stock. But a Manchurian War Lord invests in munitions. Chang Tso-Lin, sitting at Mukden, took inventory of his assets. He decided to diversify and strengthen his holdings by new purchases. He prepared for Spring "maneuvers." So he bought a shipload of French munitions. He tried to buy a few warehouses full of Italian arms which were encumbering the vicinity of Peking, but negotiations fell through so he sent to Holland and bought a big shipment of arms that was stranded there...
Countries whose former currencies have collapsed through inflation have also contributed new names to foreign exchange tables. Austria has set up a silver "shilling," following British precedents, as British bankers were so instrumental in helping her stabilize her former "krone." In place of the practically worthless mark Germany has similarly adopted the "retenmark," nominally worth one gold mark, or 23.80. The Russians, deeming their former roubles hopeless, have issued the "chervonetz" equal to ten gold roubles, or $5.15. And now Hungary has followed suit by replacing its old "krone" with a new currency called the "sparkrone...
...course of the coming week plans will get under way for the 39th Annual Conference of Eastern College Men. The conference will be held at Silver Bay this year for the third consecutive time and will last from June 12 until June 20. Silver Bay, situated on Lake George in Northern New York state, includes 1600 acres of land with 70 buildings especially adapted for conference purposes...