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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Silver...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MONEY: 71 | 4/22/1935 | See Source »

...January 1933 U. S. silver producers got 25? an oz. for their product. Before the year was out they were getting 43 (devalued) cents. Then President Roosevelt by proclamation decreed that the Treasury would give them 64½¢ an oz. for all the silver they produced. For fifteen months they have joyfully sold their output to the New Deal at that price-a better price than they had received since 1926. Last week President Roosevelt upped the price of silver again, this time to 71? which, except for the Wartime boom, was the best price that metal had enjoyed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MONEY: 71 | 4/22/1935 | See Source »

...Voted $250,000 for official celebration of Their Majesties' Silver Jubilee after stringy-haired Scottish Laborite James Maxton, M.P. had hoarsely denounced "this costly carnival of monarchist propaganda...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GREAT BRITAIN: Parliament's Week: Apr. 15, 1935 | 4/15/1935 | See Source »

Nine feet square and twelve feet high, the castle took nine years to build, cost Miss Moore $435.000. Each room is built around some fairy character, such as Cinderella or Sinbad. A 15-in. solid gold organ plays, a silver nightingale sings by electricity. A golden chandelier is hung with pear-shaped diamonds, lighted by electric bulbs the size of wheat grains. Pumps in the dungeon and tanks in the turrets make fountains splash, chimes tinkle. For the library many an author penned a tiny book in miniature. For the walls artists painted miniature murals. Miss Moore will take...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Apr. 15, 1935 | 4/15/1935 | See Source »

...United States," reflected his major interest in the field of Economics, in the pursuit of which he has become world-renowned. As early as 1892 he was drawn into the national economic situation, being one of a deputation sent to Washington to protest against threatened legislation for free silver...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Professor F. W. Taussig Resigns From Department of Economics | 4/10/1935 | See Source »

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