Word: silver
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...jump into a canal. Racing down to Lorient after the police newshawks found that young Marguerite Henriot had been murdered and she was related by marriage to Philippe Henriot but she was not killed in the garden. Her tody was found in the house on her husband's silver fox farm, a telephone clutched in her hand. Her husband's rifle from which a full magazine had been fired Jay beside...
...time since 1917 when he fled with his parents and sisters from their one-room home during the Revolution. The Russians had queer ideas of their countryman who was coming back to play for them. He would arrive with two Ethiopian bodyguards. His violin would be in a bright silver case. His wife would be either a Miss Ford or a Miss Rockefeller instead of Cinemactress Florence Vidor. Even so, there were Russians who took five-day journeys to hear Heifetz fiddle in Leningrad and Moscow, Russians who paid as high as 24 rubles ($19.20) to squeeze into his concerts...
...driver averaged 44.2 m.p.h., came within 3 min. of the course record set by a higher-powered boat. Winner of Amateur Class A and one of 18 drivers to finish in a field of 66 starters, was Gar Wood Jr., 16-year-old son of the famed speedboating "Silver Fox of Algonac." Youngster Wood was followed down the river in his bucking cockleshell by: 1) his mother in an automobile; 2) his father's mechanic in a speedboat; 3) his father in an airplane...
...reported its business for the five months through April amounted to $38,400,000 against $14,300,000 in a like period a year ago. The Dow-Jones average of prime railroad bonds was above 100 for the first time since it was compiled nearly 20 years ago. To silver talk in Washington and rocketing grain markets in Chicago, the stock-market gave scant heed. Behind this paradox of rising business and falling stocks bulked one large fact: the indexes of trade are written in the past tense. By last week John Businessman was ready to admit that the swift...
...Moritz Warburg of Federal Reserve System fame. It represents a not too conservative banker's criticism of the Roosevelt monetary policies. Wrong is the gold-buying policy: it has already been proven ineffective. Wrong is currency manipulation: it destroys credit, does not raise the right prices. Wrong is silver monetization: it will not help anyone but the silver miners. Wrong is economic nationalism: it would take 50,000,000 acres of farm land out of cultivation. Wrong are the Securities Act and RFC bank control: even worse than a banking system run by privateers is a banking system...