Word: silver
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...desk an opinion from Attorney General Cummings on the Treasury's right to take over the Federal Reserve System's gold holdings. It was known that Mr. Cum mings, Secretary Morgenthau (with his outgoing adviser, Earle Bailie), Governor Eugene Black of the Federal Reserve, Rene Leon, big silver propagandist, all had been in session at the White House. At his regular meeting with correspondents the President dropped two hints of his intentions: 1) that he was sure of his legal right to capture the Federal Reserve's gold, 2) that rumors of his intending to establish...
...personal preferences-my obligation to test unconstitutional rights as an American citi zen." Her eyes filled with tears as she added, "In this I have my father's complete approval. How he would stand with me if he were able." Not her father, who was once famed Haw ("Silver Dollar") Tabor's lawyer, but Miss Thomas' Lawyer Brother George prepared to defend her, take the matter to the Supreme Court if he could...
...with her husband on a bench against the wall finally bid it in for $15,000. Said she: "It's beautiful. It all comes apart, you know, and makes lots of bracelets and brooches and things." Known to every Chicago gossip columnist was the historic Bonaparte-McCormick gilded-silver dinner service of 1,600 separate knives, forks, plates, dishes, platters, etc., weighing over 11,700 ounces. Made by Napoleon's favorite goldsmiths, Martin Guillaume Biennais and Jean Odiot, executed after the design of Architects Percier & Fontaine, the service was a wedding present from the Emperor to his sister...
...cars for the masses are bread & butter to the Industry, cars for the classes represent the cream of the machine age. Polished instruments of beauty and precision, the high-priced models always draw the most pop-eyed crowds. Pierce-Arrow last year exhibited a special fully streamlined model called "Silver Arrow." This year nearly all Pierce-Arrows are Silver Arrows-in varying degrees. In its line of eights and two lines of twelves are models for every taste in streamlining, as well as strictly conventional models for the strictly conventional...
...leader of the opposition to the Roosevelt monetary policies, has accepted a summons to appear in Washington today before the House Committee on Coinage, Weights, and Measures. The Business School professor will be the first witness to testify in this week's public hearings on dollar stabilization plans, the silver problem, and other fiscal proposals...