Word: silver
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...over the world, viewing with dismay the dullness of the fare at Buckingham Palace under George and Mary, sigh for the bon vivant Edward VII, whose passing, commemorated in such strange fashion by a democracy-professing American aristocracy of good living, ushered in the Reign now celebrating its Silver Jubilee...
...school-boyish recitation of the rise of the economic crisis and the sins of the Hoover administration in doing nothing to prevent it. But as for giving any reassuring words to the eager businessmen of the country, who would like to know the government's intentions concerning silver, further devaluation of the already stunted dollar, or proposed methods concerning the payment of the daily multiplying debt, the Secretary of the Treasury might as well have been broadcasting cooking recipes...
...with King George as a Field Marshal looking as the late great French President Raymond Poincare once described him: "Le Roi est radieux!" Definitely radiant at his side was Queen Mary in a gown of hydrangea pink silk net, embroidered with lace, and worn over a slip of dazzling silver cloth, the whole enhanced by a necklace, bracelets and earrings of diamonds and pearls. Roared a huckster from Victoria Monument, "God bless you, Sir! God save...
...Excepting President Eamon de Valera of the Irish Free State, who stayed home from the Royal Silver Jubilee (see above), the other Premiers of the British dominions took loyal high tea last week with Prime Minister MacDonald...
...only four-volume Dictionary of Jewish Atrocities is published in Germany by silver-haired, retired Col. Ulrich Fleischhauer with but one restriction: it can be sold only to members of the Nazi Party. Last week Colonel Fleischhauer turned up in Berne, Switzerland to defend four Swiss Nazis charged with libel for circulating the notorious, forged Protocols of the Elders of Zion (TIME, Nov. 12). Not disconcerted by the fact that the Protocols are forgeries, Colonel Fleischhauer thundered, "They are in the Jewish spirit! Who can deny Jews aspire to that world domination set forth in the Protocols? Jews take world...