Word: silver
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Father Coughlin's economics, the U. S. has plenty of everything except money, and since only $5,250,000,000 worth of currency is in daily circulation, he reasons that an additional two billion worth of greenbacks would be amply covered by the nine billion gold & silver reserve in the Treasury. To hear Father Coughlin expound this theory, 18,000 New Yorkers packed into Madison Square Garden's Auditorium. Just before the meeting the box office dropped the price of $2 seats to 50?, thus ruining speculators who had loaded up. Nevertheless, an overflow crowd...
...wedding day was warm and clear. Before the Storkyrka, where all the Kings descending from Napoleon's Marshal Bernadotte have been crowned, stood Sweden's famed Grenadiers of the Guard in the original deerskin uniforms, jack boots, silver breastplates and cocked hats first presented by Russia's Catherine the Great...
...pompous Senhor Getulio Vargas, President of Brazil, to big, soldierly President Agustin P. Justo of Argentina. In 1933 President Justo paid a call on President Vargas in Rio de Janeiro which was notably successful in furthering trade and tourist traffic between the two countries. Now with suggestions from the Silver Jubilee in London, and a few original ideas of her own. Argentina was set to give her Brazilian neighbors a return welcome they would not soon forget...
...annual banquet of the Spanish Club, to be held June 12, will be in honor of Guillermo of Spanish, who this year celebrates his silver jubilee as teacher of Spanish in the University...
Even more incredible than this story, however, is the portrait of the Scarlet Pimpernel as a boy of eleven years old, "from a contemporary silver point drawing." With an air of the greatest insouciance young Percy stands in his tailcoat, ruff, and knee breeches, his left hand daintily grasping the well known handkerchief, his right elevating some sort of lorgnette or bauble which is not clearly distinguishable, and looking for all the world exactly as he did at twenty and at thirty and at forty...