Word: silver
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...income is not $1,000,000 but around $4,000,000, and the idea of passing over a $580,000 income tax check to California was extremely repugnant to the master of $220,000,000 worth of newspapers, magazines, radio stations, cinema companies, real estate, gold mines, silver mines, cattle, chicle and forest...
...both the Queen and myself this- my Silver Jubilee Year-will ever remain one of our happiest memories. ... I rejoice that it has been possible for my Government ... to grant substantial relief to the small taxpayer. I am gratified to observe a further steady increase in employment among my people. . . . Important postal, telegraph and telephone concessions have been made during the year. . . . Measures have been enacted for further assistance to the agricultural industry ... the herring industry . . . tramp shipping...
...ready to deliver it. Scarcely had the Italian Line accepted when the Normandie set a new record. To get around this development Harold Hales decreed that his trophy should be held by each consecutive winner for three months. The Italian Line displayed the $4,000 mass of encrusted silver in various places, finally brought it to Manhattan, put it in the window of their Fifth Avenue ticket office. Sweet to French hearts as the ceremony would have been if held in France, sweeter still was the prospect of publicity in Manhattan where most transatlantic tourist trade originates. From England therefore...
...again for his seat in Seaham. This coal-mining constituency four years ago returned him to Parliament after he deserted the Labor Party and formed the National Government only because he was unopposed in Seaham by a Conservative candidate and because the Laborite coal miners' wives voted for silver-haired, throbbing-voiced Ramsay while their husbands called him a traitor blackleg, and worse...
...Savior, went down to the St. Regis, put on his ceremonial blue brocade riza. Assisted by the conductor of his choir, General Sergey Savitzky, he chanted prayers before an improvised altar on which ten candles illuminated an ikon. Then Priest Kurdiumoff presented a loaf of bread and a small silver salt cellar to Mrs. Anne Tiffany, decorator, and to Mrs. Vincent Astor. whose husband owns the hotel. Up to the priest, one by one, filed Russian musicians, waiters, bus boys, cooks and, in white chef's garb, Spiridon Ignatovich who used to cook for Tsar Nicholas II. Each kissed...