Word: silver
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...successful. He has the whole hearted support not only of Messrs. Smith and Roosevelt but of a vast section of the New York Press. He is not the public idol Al Smith was, for in public appear ance he is a conservative little man. Not handshaking, not backslapping, not silver-tongued oratory, not radical promises, are his. He lacks nearly all the tools of the political trade but his State trusts him as a decent, well-behaved, hard-working executive who is doing his level best for some 12,000,000 citizens...
...world's all too numerous silver dollars-the Straits Dollar, the Hongkong Dollar, the Shanghai Dollar, the Mexican Dollar, the Sun Yat-sen Dollar, the Standard Chinese Dollar-the Canadian Government last week announced that it will add the George Dollar, first silver dollar in that Dominion. To make the George Dollar as different as possible from the old U. S. Dollar, Canada's mint will strike a coin only slightly larger in diameter than a 50?piece but nearly twice as thick. Doubtful whether Canadians really care for silver dollars, the Royal Canadian Mint will strike...
...Silver Streak (RKO) shows the Chicago, Burlington & Quincy Railroad's streamlined train as a capable deux ex machina in a melodrama of the rails. The Silver Streak, according to this picture, is the design of square-jawed young Tom Caldwell (Charles Starrett),* in love with the daughter (Sally Blane) of a railroad president. By refusing to try the train, B. J. Dexter (William Farnum), an obdurate and stupid tycoon, precipitates a broken heart for his daughter and a case of infantile paralysis for his son, Allan, an engineer at Boulder Dam. This makes it necessary for The Silver Streak, with...
...manipulated by a row of dials outside. The shaft hangs over a pile of hard candies. With a little money and a lot of skill a player can so jiggle the dials that the claws will fish out of the candy a lady's compact or a silver ash tray...
...Bally Manufacturing Co., Genco, Inc., and Rockola Manufacturing Co., are never at a loss for new ideas. Last week Mr. Rabkin's staff of artists and engineers were busy on a pin game checker board in red, gold and black with bulbous gold clouds from which issue silver thunderbolts. Before it is released this week or next the final drawings will be submitted to a commercial artist for advice. The firm's own designers, says Mr. Rabkin, get so wrought up over each new creation that they are totally unable to see the simplest flaws...