Word: silver
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...morning last week Professor James Harvey Rogers of Yale reached Singapore in the course of a world junket. Four months ago President Roosevelt sent this snaggle-toothed Brain Truster out to gather all possible facts about silver in the Orient. Professor Rogers had talked long and solemnly with Chinese bankers in Shanghai, Canton, Hongkong, had toured the Yangtze Valley, had written meaty reports back to the U. S. Treasury...
Significant point about the announcement was that none of this silver was bought under the Silver Purchase Act. Some of it was received as token payments from foreign governments on their War Debts. Some of it was bought at 64? per oz. from U.S. silver producers under the President's proclamation of last December (TIME, Jan.1). Some of it came from melting down old coins. But how much, if any, silver the Government had bought in the open market, in the U. S. or abroad, remained a dark secret...
...Majesty's wish that the celebration be as simple as possible and that all undue expenditure be avoided." Acting Prime Minister Stanley Baldwin told the House of Commons. "The title 'Silver Jubilee' has. with His Majesty's approval, been officially adopted for the year...
While the Speaker of the House of Commons dozed behind the great oak table on which lies its glittering silver-gilt mace, the Masses and the Classes of Great Britain clashed in the persons of their duly elected M. P.'s last week over a 4th Century Biblical manuscript for which the Soviet Government has been paid...
...shipyard cabled that it would be pleased to do so. When Endeavour arrives at Bristol this week, the Herreshoff workers will doubtless be as much surprised by her as they were by her owner. Endeavour, hydrangea blue above water, bronze below, is made entirely of steel except for a silver-spruce boom and a mahogany rudder. On a panel ahead of her helmsman, is a full set of airplane navigating