Word: silver
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...normal trade channels because of a low-currency country's ability to flood a high-currency country with cheap goods despite towering tariffs. Much will be said at the White House about this unfair method of international competition. The Agenda Commission, rejecting bimetallism, recommends increased subsidiary coinage of silver-a recommendation that started rumors that the U. S., Britain and France were to buy $1,000,000.000 of silver for that purpose.- Speaker Rainey, a silverite. ordered all silver legislation shelved in the House on the ground that the World Conference alone was able to deal with the issue...
...stiff dose of Blondle Johnson, has a decided effect on the audience--that of making them want to go home. But just when the evening seems to be at its worst, a comic cartoon comes to the rescue, but the "Peanut Vender" spoils that, too. Every cloud has its silver lining, and fortunately for all concerned, Jack (Drums) Powell's excellent performance keeps the evening from being entirely wasted...
...afternoon, Dodge announced. The results of these trials will be used by Coaches Farrell and Mikkola in making up the list of handicaps for the meet next week. Freshmen and Upperclassmen will compete together in this meet. The names of the first-place winners will be engraved on the silver trophics on exhibition in the Lounge Room in the Dillon Field House...
...Mills climbed into the locomotive's cab. Mrs. Hoover and Manhattan's onetime Congresswoman Ruth Pratt stayed behind in the coach. At Virginia City the party visited the famed crystal bar of the Washoe Club. Mr. Mills's grandfather had once signed its register. Many a Silver King in Nevada's great days had stood up to its bar. Mr. Hoover stepped up to sign the register, saw that photographers were setting up their cameras. He said, "Not now. No pictures in here." One photographer persisted. Mr. Hoover barked, "You take that camera out of here...
Minus its bar, Hausmann's has gone on selling near-beer, as has oldtime Fauerbach's. Both will step it up. Madison's Silver Dollar Bar is gone, but not Hammacher's where freshmen had to "cross the Rubicon"- down a two-quart stein in the tradition, without the sabre-flourishes and "prosits," of the salamander ceremony still performed by German Studentenkorps...