Word: silver
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...spare the time from such other headaches as Ethiopia and Nazis, something should be done to help China by maintaining "the open door." China has received the heaviest solar-plexus wallop to her economy not from Japan but from the Pittman "Silver Bloc" in Congress, whose success in jacking up President Roosevelt to jack up the price of silver forced China's currency off the silver standard and dislocated the affairs of 400,000,000 Chinese. Last week's keynote caused the Japanese Foreign Office's tart spokesman Mr. Eiji Amau to snort: "Senator Pittman...
...course was given to selected students from the eighteen public schools in Cambridge and the lecture topics included the Art of Egypt, the Cathedrals of the Middle Ages, Art Treasures of the Vatican, and American Colonial Silver Work. Special excursions were also made to the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston...
Prime Minister Stanley Baldwin, seeking a safe constituency for the King's silver-haired, silver-tongued friend, arranged for MacDonald to contest a seat representing the Scottish Universities, notwithstanding that as Labor Prime Minister James Ramsay MacDonald sought and failed some years ago to combine the three Scottish Universities' seats into one. Last week the Scottish academicians recognized that Mr. MacDonald is now as Conservative as any man in the Kingdom, sent him to the House of Commons where Conservatives cheered and Laborites jeered. C. Speeded extension of Unemployment...
...months after King George mounted England's Throne there was founded conveniently adjacent to Havana a country club which was the great enterprise of "Father Snare." Last week came his Silver Jubilee, celebrated with presentation of silver gifts amid silver-decked palms, with the stateliest ladies of Cuba in attendance wearing cloth-of-silver gowns. Cried the Island Republic's No. 1 lawyer, silver-tongued young Dr. Mario Lazo: "Of course this Country Club of Havana is not the most important of the difficult things Mr. Snare has founded here. The most important thing is the spirit...
With the most lavish and expensive swimming pool in any Caribbean country and with one of the best layouts for daytime sport and moon-drenched romantic evenings in Latin America, "Father Snare" still busies himself with earnest works appropriate to one who last week celebrated his Silver Jubilee. Few caddies are so pious as his. Smart Cuban lads, placed under the strict guidance of three Roman Catholic priests and educated in English and arts & crafts in the Club's school, these Greensward Sons of "Father Snare" never tire of hailing his greatest greens feat. Last year on his 72nd...