Word: silver
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...that they were at least in part mistaken. The flood looked silvery, not green and the direction of its drift indicated that it had turned into another course. No shouts of "Greenbacks! Give us Greenbacks!" rose from the Capitol, but 20 Congressmen adopted a resolution, previously framed by 18 Silver Senators, calling for bimetallism-free and unlimited coinage of both silver and gold -"at a ratio to be established by law." Senator Wheeler of Montana and Senator King of Utah called on the President with silver in their mouths. They emerged with shining eyes, and Mr. Wheeler confided to newshawks...
...Thomas won the vantage point where he became the legal sponsor of these drastic acts by his own type of doggedness. His well-barbered white hair, businesslike dress, calm manner, conversational public speeches bear no resemblance to the traditional windblown locks, flapping coat tails, and fiery eloquence of the silver-tongued demagog. It is true that his first political campaign, conducted in his native Indiana when he was still at the unripe age of 19, consisted of 28 stump speeches in support of William ennings Bryan. But he did not choose to imitate Bryan. In 1901, aged 25, having graduated...
Last week Father Coughlin was pursuing a course strikingly parallel to that of the inflationists in Congress. When Congressmen walked out from their caucus on remonetizing silver, they could have stopped at any newsstand and bought a copy of Mr. Moley's magazine Today, could have read in it an article by Father Coughlin earnestly advocating symmetallism (a cousin of bimetallism, but with differences perhaps more notable than its likeness to its relative). And the same day that Senator Thomas was revealing to the Press a draft of a bill for substituting gold certificates for the gold reserve...
...SILVER SENATORS have made one of the most concrete advances on the Left front. From 35? an ounce in August the price of silver shot to 45? an ounce on Jan. 2, due to the pressure of Messrs. Thomas, King, Wheeler (left to right below) toward monetizing silver and the resultant Presidential order for Treasury purchases of silver, much like RFC purchases of gold. True, the new gold-silver ratio is only 53-to-1 as compared to Bryan's 16-to-1 formula, but that is only a first step, say the Silver Senators...
...repulsive epithet. Very much a lady is the first woman ever appointed a U. S. Minister. Last week in Copenhagen the rule that senior diplomats always take precedence was waived in her favor by the gallants of the corps. Leading them all in a gown and hat of silver-embroidered black velvet the U. S. Minister swept up to King Christian, chatted diplomatic nothings in what the Associated Press hailed as "a triumph for Mrs. Ruth Bryan Owen...