Word: silver
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Majesty Queen Wilhelmina, or Willemientje (little Wilhelmina) as she remains to the Dutch, 25 years a queen, entered her capital upon her Silver Jubilee and birthday celebration amid great enthusiasm...
...Committee, meeting at Reno, will hear the non-ferrous metal pro- ducers and try to arrive at a program to present to the next Congress. Senator Oddie is talking of the formation of a silver export association to control the marketing of silver. While silver producers are not opposed, there is considerable opinion that such an association might come in conflict with the Sherman anti-trust...
Meanwhile Senator Pittman, author of the Pittman Act, which compels the Treasury in buying silver to replace silver dollars to pay one dollar an ounce for the metal, is still exercised and protesting because the Treasury refuses to buy silver (TiME, June 18). The market price has been hovering at 60 and some odd cents an ounce. Under Secretary Gilbert objects to extravagance. There is talk of an alliance between the farmer and silver groups in the next Congress with a log-rolling slogan: "$1.00 silver, $1.75 wheat...
Children of the Moon. The moon, according to the thesis of this curiously cabalistic play, is a bad parent. Each month when her silver face is toward the earth she curls invisible, strange tentacles around her children's minds and cuts for a time their contact with the world...
Died Captain Fred Walters," Blue Man " of Barnum's and Ringling Brothers' Circus, 68, in Manhattan, of heart disease. An autopsy showed that his heart, brain, muscles were as blue as his skin. This is attributed to silver poisoning contracted in an Australian mine...