Word: silver
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...held on April 9. At that time those men who will actually speak in the Triangular debate will be chosen, and the Coolidge Prizes will also be awarded. The Prizes consist of $100 in cash to the best speaker, gold medals to the participants in the Triangular debate, and silver medals to those who are chosen as alternates...
Officially, no country ever wins the Olympic Games. Scores are kept only for individual events in which the first three contestants get respectively gold, silver and bronze medals. Unofficially, sportswriters long ago worked out a system to determine team championships by awarding ten points for first place, five for second, four for third and so on down to one point for sixth in each event. On this basis last week, the U. S., winner of the Olympic Games at Lake Placid in 1932, finished a feeble fifth. Norway won with 121 points. Germany was second with 57, Sweden third with...
...servant of the money changers," New York's Representative John Joseph O'Connor, sent the following telegram: "If you will please come to Washington, I shall guarantee to kick you all the way from the Capitol to the White House, with clerical garb and all the silver in your pockets which you got by speculating in Wall Street. . . ." Said the Radio-Priest: "I'll be on the Capitol steps at 10 o'clock Wednesday morning...
Back from Wausau, Wis., where the temperature was 35°, to Manhattan, Chicago, Los Angeles, other U. S. fur-trading centres, journeyed last week some 70 fur buyers. At Hamburg, 20 miles from Wausau, is the 12,000-acre silver fox ranch of Fromm Bros., world's largest breeders of bright silver foxes. There last fortnight blond blue-eyed Edward Fromm auctioned off more than 7,500 silver fox pelts for some $540,000. Buyers, fur-capped and ear-muffed, enjoyed their junket. From the Hotel Wausau they took busses to the Hamburg ranch, found free drinks and bowling...
...Senate; of heart disease; in Washington D. C. Died. William Hope ("Coin") Harvey, 84, oldtime champion of bimetallism on whose coattails William Jennings Bryan rose to fame; of peritonitis; in Monte Ne, Ark. In 1900, when the Democrats abandoned their advocacy of free coinage of silver, Harvey moved to the Ozarks, began work on his proposed 130-ft. "Pyramid of America," in the vaults of which future archeologists were to find the history of U. S. civilization, Harvey's reasons for its downfall. When Depression halted work in 1932, Harvey organized the "Liberty Party," received 800 votes for President...