Word: silver
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...need a managed currency, such as England has, and as a step toward it the present move is to be applauded. Such action is far better than providing for the necessary inflation by a return to unlimited coinage of silver on a basis of 16 to 1. If the Thomas bill, as revised yesterday, passes Congrees, the President will have the power to bring about as much inflation as is necessary; this is far better than leaving the task to Congrees...
Winners of each race and field event will have his name engraved on the trophy from that event, and will receive a photograph of the trophy. Winners of second and third places will be awarded silver and bronze medals respectively...
...declared in his American Black Chamber that the U. S. had stolen secret Japanese messages at the Washington Arms Conference. The official secrets bill was aimed at a second volume of "exposures" by him. *France last month issued $58,800,000 worth of new 10-franc and 20-franc silver pieces, first minted since...
...young couple arrange to have Ronald witness his wife being abducted. This leads him to leap out of the wheel chair to which his mother has reduced him, establish his independence by a rescue. Laura Hope Crews who played a serious version of the same role in The Silver Cord does as well as anyone possibly could with Mrs. Colgate. The picture is a minor injustice to her as well as to Zasu Pitts, whose woeful eyes, Lady Macbeth hands and forlorn nervous meanings have made her celebrated as Hollywood's only sad comedienne...
...circus buffs the Flying Codonas really, artistically wind up the show, though Human Projectile Hugo Zacchini still hurtles clear across the Garden from the mouth of an inclined cannon to make the official finale. Zacchini is good, and this year his cannon is mounted on a silver truck. But he is a find, not an artist, not a circus tradition. His trajectories will not be charted after he is gone...