Word: silver
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Silver medals were awarded to the following alternates: W. Tucker Dean '37, Hubert H. Nexon '37, Bennett Frankel '37, Harold W Danser '37, Edward J. Duggan '37, and James B. Hallett...
...forward passing trophy is a sterling silver bowl and was an anonymous gift. The Roger W. Cutler Trophy, to be awarded to the player who excels in punting, was donated by Roger W. Cutler '11. The S. V. R. Crosby Trophy, to be awarded the player who performs best in drop kicking, was donated by Stephen V. R. Crosby...
Thus the U. S. is acquiring a huge silver investment at prices maintained only by its own huge purchases. Why it should do so puzzles some economists, but only those who have ignored the writings of the New Deal's monetary adviser, Dr. George Frederick ("Rubber Dollar") Warren. Dr. Warren's chief tenet is, in substance, that the Depression is due to the production of gold falling behind the production of other commodities. He is not primarily a silverite but in his book Gold & Prices, published month ago,* he asserted: "The production of silver has come much nearer...
...combination of gold and silver. It is on the gold standard (at 59? to the dollar) and has on the side a hoard of silver, a highly speculative asset against some of its liabilities. Only sensible explanation of the Treasury's continuing to increase that huge speculation is that it is looking forward to making the dollar a gold & silver combination. That would be symmetallism, first cousin to bimetallism and would take the speculative element out of the U. S. silver hoard. But no word did the Treasury breathe last week of symmetallism or bimetallism. Talk of monetary changes...
...Toronto the Imperial Order of the Daughters of the Empire hired Ming-Toy, a dancer formerly at London's Kit Kat Club, for their annual ball last week, forbade her at the last moment to dance in her usual costume, silver paint. Undaunted Ming-Toy did a sinuous, undulating fan dance before the Imperial Daughters of the British Empire, then, at the last moment, showed what she thinks of them by raising her fans and standing starkly revealed in red underdrawers...