Word: silver
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...afternoon last week as the price of silver was falling below 66¢ per oz. to its lowest point in four months, Secretary of the Treasury Morgenthau passed some hot, bedevilled hours. Finally at 6 p. m. he called newshawks into his office to confess...
...There have been so many inquiries, so many rumors?the telephone ringing and things like that?that I thought I had better break my usual rule and say something about silver. . . . We bought more silver today than the total annual domestic production in 1934, which is estimated at 25,500,000 ounces. We have not stopped buying at all; we have bought on other days in proportion...
...your article on silver entitled "Smart Silver" in your issue of July 29 I wish you would add one more item to the list of five results which you have quoted as the result of the Administration's effort to improve conditions. You quote the present price of silver with the idea of characterizing it as exorbitant.' I wish to say that for the 20 years preceding the Depression the average price received for silver by its producers averaged...
Dedicated "To Someone I Love," Mary Pickford's first novel tells the story of Coralee Dumont, golden-haired, silver-voiced little widow whose extraordinary run of good luck began when she was stranded in Paris one July...
...Laurence Vincent Benét, U. S. wife of the Managing Director of La Societe Hotchkiss et Cie. (machine guns), aunt-in-law of the Poets Benét, reported that between cocktails and soup Hostess Benet served each female guest with a cotton puff on a silver waiter and a brief note: "Please dispose of your lipstick. ... I love and value my linen...