Word: silver
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Just squeeze a few chiseling middlemen- AAA officials said that was all their amendments aim to do. But who, asked Senator Byrd; ever heard of a bureaucrat not using all the powers given him? No silver-tongued orator is Harry Byrd but he is an apple grower, the biggest east of the Mississippi, operator of 10,000 acres of Virginia orchards. Said he last fortnight...
...London yesterday. It's streets tricked in colors of red, white, blue and gold; its buildings flooded with many colored lights; Westminster Abbey, described in one account as "a poem in old ivory," and Buckingham Palace a "stately miracle in white"--in such dress London toasted King George's silver jubilee so proudly as to make one feel there had never been a war nor was one in the making...
...Silver Jubilee of George V was about to get under way last week (see p. 20) many an eye turned to Canada to see what expressions of proud imperialism might come from His Majesty's mightiest dominion. Observers found Canadians less deeply engrossed in the King's 25th milestone than in the question of whether they might be obliged to go to war again. Student pacifists, leagues against war were as profuse in Canada as in the U. S. Few weeks ago a seasoned old Quebec M. P. named Henri Bourassa pushed a measure through Commons sustaining...
...purse of approximately ?5,000. It settles a huge sweepstake and costs most of the 300,000 who watch it a shilling for the privilege. The Maryland Hunt Cup race, started in 1894 when two rival fox hunts decided to see which had the best horses, is for a silver cup which Captain Kettle would have retired last week if he had been a step faster. The race is ridden by amateurs, watched for nothing, by 20,000 of the people who make upper Virginia and Maryland the best fox hunting country in the U. S. Last week...
Meanwhile the stockmarket, pursuing an independent course, has been climbing since the middle of March. Last week it flowered in five successive days of million-share trading or better. Brokers got so excited that they began to call up long-lost customers to spread the cheer. Silver stocks led the market (see p. 17), and the Dow-Jones industrial stock averages hit the highest level of the year. But that was the same level as the other New Deal highs of February 1934 and July 1933 and there, balancing better feeling against poorer figures, the stockmarket hung churning...