Word: silver
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...whole year Senator Elmer Thomas has been thumping the drum for inflation. He thumped last autumn for dollar devaluation and he got it. He thumped last spring for monetization of silver and he got what, from a distance, looked like it. Having learned how easy it is to get what he wants by thumping his drum in the ears of Treasury officials, he thumped it once again last week. Said...
...Treasury has authority, under legislation passed last session, to buy as much as 1,000,000,000 ounces of silver and to issue certificates against it. But virtually nothing has been done and a deflationary process is increasing in vigor...
Next day what the Treasury "really" was doing was explained to the public. It was waiting for the Bureau of Printing & Engraving to turn out new silver certificates. The first instalment, some $12,000,000 each of $1 and $5 bills, was just ready. The Treasury expects to get some $23,000,000 more in $10, $20 and $100 bills printed before Oct. 1. Altogether these silver certificates are backed by some 63,000,000 oz. of silver for which the Government paid...
...pious and paunchy Premier Richard Bedford Bennett sped to Quebec as the trig little liner Duchess of Richmond steamed in from Liverpool. Aboard was the Prime Minister of Great Britain, James Ramsay MacDonald, and his Housekeeper-Daughter Ishbel, on a three-month Canadian vacation. Whisked off by Premier Bennett, silver-haired, 67-year-old Scot MacDonald was soon sailing across the Bay of Fundy, driving up to a tiny cottage in Digby for the rest which eye-strain has imposed on him. As Ishbel sent out for more vases to hold the flowers which Digby's New Scotlanders brought...
When Arthur W. Fuchs, Eastman's x-ray expert, took the picture, the girl was wearing a white cotton dress. Visible were her jewelry: a necklace and pendant of gold and jade, a white-gold wrist watch, a silver bracelet, two rings, an earring...