Word: silver
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...turn out to be the greatest mystery since "somebody hit Billy Patterson!" Here's "egg" in your eye for bigger and better mysteries! WILLIAM G. TARRANT JR. Richmond, Va. About one-hole eggs there is no mystery. All expert oölogists blow their eggs with a fine silver tube inserted through one hole drilled in the shell. Pressure of air blown in forces the egg's contents out of the hole. If incubation has begun, fine scissors are used to hash the embryo so it will pass out. - ED. Guggenheims & Robber Barons Sirs: In the issue...
...unprecedented a patriotic gesture, but a number of Congressmen-mostly Republicans- began to snicker at its unprecedented incongruity: to welcome back the President with open arms after Congress had, in his absence, flouted his wishes by overriding his pension veto, by taxing Philippine coconut oil, by threatening to remonetize silver (see p. 14), by extracting teeth from the Stock Exchange bill. When Franklin Roosevelt-after a long conference with General Johnson and NRA Counsel Richberg aboard his train coming from Miami-drew into Washington's Union Station, he was surprised to hear the stentorian trumpets of the Marine Band...
...regulation bill, with teeth; 5) a bill to appropriate $1,500,000,000 to $2,000,000,000 for relief and PWA expenses until the next Congress meets. Picked for probable sacrifice: Commodity exchange regulation bill; communications commission bill; permanent airmail bill; Wagner Labor bill. Picked for defeat: The silver purchase bill in its present form, the McLeod bill (see p. 14) and similar measures. To be sure of defeating the silver bill the President placed on his list for passage "some other monetary measure" to help placate the silver block...
...Connolly" as the movie "Carolina", will deal informally with some of the problems of the dramatist who works with material unusual to the stage. He covers a wide range of subject matter, from his own special milieu, the folk-play of South Carolina to the flashier contributions of the silver screen...
Fabulous were the stories of her housekeeping. She had a gold dining service worth $500,000 which she used for celebrities. Lesser guests ate off an equally handsome but less valuable silver set. Her objets d'art were appraised in the millions. She ran her house with the cool efficiency of a military general. All servants were carefully checked in and out of the building and a report of their movements was handed to her each morning. She supervised (but did not attend) the famed "Gary Dinners," where steelmen met to plot the course of their empires...