Word: silver
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Japan was slavering at China's gates last week, threatening to swallow both Peiping (once Peking) and the great North China port of Tientsin. Meanwhile Charles James Fox, president of Tientsin's American Chamber of Commerce, was saying: "In my opinion, the Roosevelt Government's silver policy is harming American interests in China more than are the Japanese...
...assets of $70,000,000 as recently as last December, had just been shaken down. He blamed the collapse of his American-Oriental Banking Corp., much patronized by missionaries, the U. S. Marines and Shanghai prostitutes, on President Roosevelt's artificial jacking up of the price of silver, on which everything turns in China. "I am financially broke, but we are protecting our creditors," said Mr. Raven. "All my resources are going into liquidation of my companies. American silver-buying drained China of her silver, which froze credits, which in turn is paralyzing business." The Chinese Government, having begged...
With China more than ever prostrated by her white-man-made silver crisis, Japanese Army commanders in Manchukuo and at Boxer Protocol garrisons in North China proceeded to make impossible demands on the Chinese Government, demands the mere granting of which would mean the abdication of the Chinese Government in North China...
...wisdom of George V in deciding not to use his solid gold dinner service at the three State Jubilee Banquets in Buckingham Palace (TIME, April 22) was further manifest last week when guests of Their Majesties were revealed to have departed with solid silver pepper pots, knives and spoons and a solid silver dinner plate worth...
...announcement by Kennecott's President Earl Tappan Stannard that the Kennecott mine would reopen this week, hiring 250 workmen. Copper prices are not much better than they were when the mine was closed but President Stannard felt he could make his profit from the mine's byproducts, silver & gold...