Word: silver
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...everything from the progress of the Gorgas Memorial Institute of Tropical and Preventive Medicine to the results of a survey of the cotton velvet and velveteen industry. These were succeeded by a torrent of communications from such organizations as the Rotary Club of Indianola, Iowa (for increased monetization of silver and extension of agricultural markets by use of War Debts), the Alaska Native Brotherhood (protesting relief discrimination), the Bakers' Association of Puerto Rico (praying for the non-application of the flour processing tax), the Holy Name Society at Saginaw, Mich, (asking closer supervision of movies). The volume of these...
...Each House will be given a chance to do what it wants, and for the first few months there will no inter-House debates, but informal discussions at which it is hoped some men of national prominence will speak, are to be held. It was also announced that a silver cup will probably be given to the House which wins the debating championship...
Streamline. Last year Fierce-Arrow startled the automobile world by exhibit ing a streamlined car, the Silver Arrow, at the automobile show. Only five were specially manufactured. This year the Silver Arrow will be a production job. But Pierce Arrow, a high priced car, has necessarily a high priced, therefore a largely conservative market. This year will see automobile companies making three kinds of cars, the standard traditional type, the semi-streamline, and the streamline which is the gamble of Chrysler & Foy. Chrysler is not taking this gamble with his big volume makes Plymouth and Dodge, for the results...
...that she was through with singing. This time she was attempting a come back with the newborn Chicago Grand Opera (TIME, Jan. 1). And if there were no mounted police to drive off the crowds who could not get in to hear her, no delegation from Kansas City, no silver plaques, she at least established herself as a better singer, a surer actress...
...detailed criticism of the Montevideo conference, happily free of the old saws and penetrating on the real extent of the concept of good will. There is a salve, in story form, on the installment buying system by William Trufant Foster; and a very, very conventional restatement of the silver argument, this time called "Honest Inflation," by one Edward Tuck. The most valuable contribution to Scribners comes from V. F. Calverton. Mr. Calverton is concerned with a sane revaluation of Thomas Paine, and he shows that among the many ironies of Paine's life, the most bitter was his persecution...