Word: silver
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...which His Majesty's personal qualities have inspired widely in America and which were so noticeable when he was gravely ill some years ago. They were again illustrated by the interest with which the American public during this summer has watched the ceremonies of the King's Silver Jubilee. It is in recognition of these feelings that the artist offers this gift of the King's portrait to yourself for the American people...
Since the paying of bills among whites is something not always done now, II Duce last week troubled himself more about the dusky races on both sides of the Red Sea who insist on payment in the broad silver Maria Theresa dollars. These thalers are nothing but disks of silver struck in Vienna with the likeness of Austria's long dead Empress.* Silver collected from Italians last week and minted into Maria Theresa dollars was impressed with Maria Theresa's death date, 1780, only date considered any good by Ethiopian chiefs whom Signor Mussolini expects to bribe...
...permit himself to be quoted, but said one: "Only a few months ago Italy's credit position was such that she was desperately cutting down and rationing her imports, yet now she is importing war supplies from everywhere. She has taken such drastic measures as to withdraw all silver from circulation in Italy [TIME, June 24], measures such as usually are necessary only toward the end of a war. If the Dictator has to do such things now, what will he have to do later?" Said another: "Suppose even that Italy conquers all Ethiopia, how can she turn this...
...both sides of the Red Sea, are disparagingly said by bankers to "bear no obligation of redemption." Being worth always exactly the value of the metal they contain, Maria Theresa dollars therefore cannot be devalued by any unscrupulous currency jugglers. With a standard content of 28.0668 grams of silver .8333 fine, the Maria Theresa dollar was worth in U. S. money 19? in January 1933 just before Calvin Coolidgc's death, 26? in May after President Roosevelt took the U. S. dollar off gold, and 53? today after the dollar has been devalued and the price of silver boosted...
...Wales's curious lack of discrimination in matters of food and Queen Mary's downright stinginess.* Smart and suave, the royal chef knows perfectly how to give satisfaction. Last week there was a silent chorus of Gallic shrugs among London's best chefs when it appeared that the international Silver Jubilee Soup Recipe Competition (TIME, March 18), of which M. Cedard was a judge, had been won by a British Army cook sergeant, honest George Brown of Aldershot...