Word: silver
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...stone-built Edinburgh last week the 70-year-old 7th Duke of Buccleuch wriggled his lean limbs into an archer's uniform of woodland green. So did all the Scottish aristocrats of the Royal Company of Archers, of whom the Duke is Captain-General. They filled their quivers with silver-barbed arrows, stepped into their limousines and rode to Holyrood Palace, there to guard King George and Queen Mary who had come up for Scotland's yearly "drawing room...
Rooseveltian candor, Rooseveltian liberalism, Rooseveltian charm, some people thought, had insensibly softened stern Critic Borah. His favorite topic, unforgiveness of War debts, was practically shelved by the new Administration. Relief was being doled in quantities of which he approved. He championed silver and the President gave him and his fellows the Silver Purchase Act. When the Recovery Act was under debate he succeeded in inserting a provision on another of his favorite subjects?forbidding NRA codes to "permit monopolies or monopolistic practices"?and then ultimately voted against the measure. He joined Senator Nye in attacking NRA as a promoter...
...United States. A day-long orgy of mutton-pie eating, sword-dancing, and caber-tossing, the Cowal Games ended with a parade of 100 bagpipers and drummers who marched over the rolling hills tooting the air of The Seventy-Ninth Farewell to Gibraltar. Prize for piping-a silver cup and $150-went to the Lovat Band whose bald-headed leader, Augus Fraser, has entered 30 bagpiping contests during the last nine years, won 25 of them. Honors in caber-tossing (throwing forward in a half circle a log about the size of a small telegraph pole) went to an Armonk...
...York Commodity Exchange celebrated its first anniversary under one roof. Silk had been dull for more than a year. Hide sales had dropped 47,000,000 lb. Copper, restricted by NRA price controls, had been inactive for months, as had tin, affected by cartels abroad. Trading in silver futures slumped off three weeks ago when the Silver Purchase Act slapped a 50% tax on the profits of silver speculators. Only rubber continued to be active. Last week the Commodity Exchange, casting about for other staples in which its 950 members could do business, established a futures market for lead pigs...
Died. Franklin MacVeagh, 94, onetime (1909-13) Secretary of the Treasury, longtime wholesale grocer, great-uncle of U. S. Minister to Greece Lincoln MacVeagh; of bronchial pneumonia; in Chicago. Farm-born, Yale-bred, he entered politics as a Democrat, could not stomach the Bryan Silver Policy, turned Republican, later disturbed Republicans by urging lower tariffs. In 1928 he supported the Smith candidacy...