Word: silver
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Enclosed find money order for $5 in payment of my renewal order sent in some time ago-in spite of the giggle about our paternal grandfather Missouri nosepicker Silver Dick Bland (TIME...
...hard feelings. As the current Dick Eland's wife, I might tell you for data on heredity that Grandson Dick Bland picks his nose at table, but has all the other qualities of lovableness and generosity attributed to Silver Dick also. For instance, in a St. Joseph, Mo. hospital lay Silver Dick ill with typhoid and considerably nettled thereof when a green young interne attempted to minister to him. For days the young medico tried to please, but as he rushed into the room in answer to yells was immediately retreated by more bellows of rage and helplessness...
...Republicans the gold standard and "hard money" became a political fetish with which to frighten the electorate. But the electorate refused to be frightened and the Republicans lost the Presidency. Last January in the Senate inflationists mustered 18 votes for the Bryanesque 16-to-1 free coinage of silver, most discredited of the quantitative money proposals, and their drive seemed definitely halted (TIME...
...farm bill Senator Wheeler from silver-producing Montana offered an amendment for 16-to-1 free coinage of the metal. Close on its heels trod Senator Frazier with an amendment for fiat money, Senator Connally for dollar devaluation, many another. The Democratic leadership, unable to stave off a vote, decided to stand and fight the currency inflationists. That meant standing and fighting one man-John William Elmer Thomas, senior Senator from Oklahoma, who for two years has been the ringleader of Congressional inflationists. This tall (6 ft. 2 in.) well-groomed Senator with slick, grey hair above a round, solemn...
Last week like a generalissimo on the battlefield Senator Thomas was in complete command of the Senate inflationists. Into the silver debate he sent his cohorts -Louisiana's Long, Nevada's Pittman, Utah's King-to make his arguments for him while he sat back and egged them on. When the roll was called, the nation was amazed to learn that 33 Senators plumped for inflation by the coinage of silver-a clear gain of 15 votes in three months...