Word: silver
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...simultaneous world-wide public works program, holding an increase in consumption and production to be more effective than tariff or monetary changes. Debts, he admitted, must be adjusted. Meantime Indian and some other Delegates swung to the support of the U. S. plan for a freer use of silver...
Soong. Speaking clipped Harvard English, owl-eyed Chinese Finance Minister T. V. Soong proposed to raise and stabilize silver prices, declared that if this were done China and India could buy untold quantities of the World's products and ended with a bristling declaration: "China does not subscribe to any [Japanese] 'Monroe Doctrine' for the Far East." Shanghai cables reported that Dr. Soong obtained last week a British loan of ?20,000,000 but in London this was not confirmed...
...Siam's erstwhile was replaced in 1928 by her silver baht of one hundred satangs. Nickel & bronze satang pieces are legal tender only up to one baht, above which sum debtors must pay silver...
...Divine. Greeks and Episcopalians were photographed together as bushy-bearded Athenagoras. Archbishop of North & South America, presented the stone in a velvet-lined box on behalf of Chrysostomos, Archbishop of Athens, who wrote to his western brother saying: '"I consider this stone more precious than gold or silver...
Italo Balbo at 23 came out of the War and the hardy Alpine corps with a bronze medal, two silver medals, a lisp and vaguely revolutionary ideas. The last he put into a newspaper called L'Alpino. Back in his native Ferrara where, as a schoolboy, he had organized and led farmworkers in fights against landowners. Balbo was among the first to enroll in the rising movement of Fascism. Enormously ambitious, popping with energy, he made such a good job of clubbing the opposition that he was put in charge of II Duce's own territory. When...