Word: silver
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Passed (54-to-9) a bank reform bill by Virginia's Glass, after defeating (58-10-18) a 16-to-1 silver amendment; sent it to the House (see below...
...Like Stealing." Echoing the Republican arguments of 1896 against Bryanism, Pennsylvania's Senator Reed bitterly flayed the Wheeler silver amendment: "It would be giving a great cash bonus to India and perhaps China. . . . Panic and crisis would be precipitated. . . . We'd see a flight of capital that would take our breath away. . . . There would be such a catastrophic overturn of American business that all the benefits would be obviated. . . . It's like stealing from one class to help another. ... I don't believe that the people of the United States have gone dishonest overnight because...
...Senator Glass pushed the Wheeler 16-to-1 silver amendment to a vote and the Senate resoundingly rejected it, 56-to-18. Six Republican progressives and twelve Democrats from the South and West plumped for silver. That did not indicate the full strength of the Senate inflationists because many a Soft Money man favors another method of devaluating the dollar. But for the time being the stalking ghost of William Jennings Bryan retired from the Senate chamber...
...three children the late Mrs. Francis Bowes Sayre, daughter of Woodrow Wilson, 28th President of U. S., left $12,000, jewelry and silver, including the silver service and diamond necklace which were her White House wedding presents from the U. S. Senate & House...
Died. Kate Meyrick, sixtyish, mother of eight, London night club proprietor; of influenza; at the home of a son-in-law, the Earl of Kinnoull; in London. Choice hostesses at her clubs (Silver Slipper, 43 Club) were her daughters, available only to the socially & politically eminent. She served five prison terms for selling liquor without a license, for bribing police...