Word: silver
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...United States Legation at Peking handed the Chinese Foreign Office a demand for $25,000 as an indemnity for the death of Charles Coltman, a United States citizen. Mr. Coltman was shot on December 11, 1922, by Chinese soldiers in an alleged dispute over the export of silver...
Twenty-four men of the University have already signed up for the Silver Bay Student Conference which will be held at Silver-Bay-on-Lake-George from June 14 to June 22 inclusive. It is expected that the Harvard delegation will number at least forty men as many who will probably attend have not as yet definitely registered among those going...
...have genius there must be some unity of race; and when there is no New Yorker but only a man from New York, one is at a loss to know just which soul "of the greatest city in the world" is to he found in the present Silver Jubilee...
...reported that Signor Mussolini requested Dr. Seipel, Austrian Chancellor, on the occasion of his recent visit to the Premier, for permission to mint the silver thaler of the Empress Maria Theresa...
...have waxed and waned and the threat of war has lowered black on the horizon more than once. The most recent cloud, which arose over the Turkish claim for reparations, has now been turned inside out by Venizeios and Ismet Pasha, and ministers at Lausanne believe that wisps of silver can be seen without great straining of the eyes. With both parties to the argument immovable in their convictions, the obstacle at first appeared difficult. Then the other members of the conference joined the argument. Greece acknowledged the validity of the claim, Turkey accepted the gift of Karaghatch...