Word: silver
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...YORK: Greater New York is planning its silver anniversary to be held from May 28 to June 23. An expense budget of $493,500 allows $100,000 for exhibits of the city departments, $25,000 to provide medals for every member of the City Administration, $20,000 for fireworks. Gothamites will learn how their city has grown. Also, how faithfully the Hylan administration is serving them...
...full glory of ancient pomp Caliph Abdul Medjid crossed the Bosporus in a fourteen-oared caïque painted with a frieze of flowers and arabesques, its carved gilt prow sur- mounted by a silver image of a strange bird. The occasion was the first Selamlik-official service at a mosque-held in Scutari (opposite Constantinople) by the Caliph...
...will award gold and silver medals to the winners and runners-up in the University wrestling tournament which will open next week. All men are eligible to compete except those who wrestled against Yale last Saturday. Blue books are now posted in the Hemenway gymnasium and the Freshman Athletic Building for all members of the University to sign who wish to enter. Dr. Parmenier will be in Wadsworth House from 2 to 3 o'clock each afternoon to examine those who have entered but have not had a physical examination this year...
...initial meeting of the Silver Bay Committee held yesterday afternoon in the Randolph Breakfast Room. W. E. Crosby Jr. '24, the chairman of the committee, outlined his plans for the work of the committee, and introduced Fifield Workum 3L., who spoke informally about the conferences which he had attended while an undergraduate...
Foreign exchange experienced quiet trading and few significant movements in rates. The advance of silver bullion in the London and New York markets was responsible for a rise in the Oriental silver currencies. Sterling improved fraction ally, again moving through $4.70, Undoubtedly the most interesting circumstance in the foreign exchange market was the firmness of German marks, despite the continual wholesale printing of new paper currency-last week saw 389,000,000,000 new marks issued by the Reichsbank, The latter institution is for the time being successfully " rigging" the mark exchange rates by compelling Germans to sell...