Word: silver
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Then the visiting began in earnest. Western legislators arrived to plead remonetization of silver. An Ohio delegation came to get a Cabinet job. Republicans packed the Roosevelt levee as well as Democrats. Oregon's McNary came because he is chairman of the Senate's Agricultural Committee. He heard Mr. Roosevelt's wish that the Domestic Allotment plan be limited to wheat, cotton, hogs and tobacco, that it be enacted by this session in time to be effective for the 1933 crops. Cultured Senator Bronson Cutting of New Mexico came because he was a boyhood friend. Hiram Johnson...
...yours of Jan. 2 under "New Pictures," you devote a column and a half to Silver Dollar and to H. A. W. Tabor. Commenting on the same...
Tabor was a large-framed, rugged man with little surplus flesh; utterly unlike the nutty-faced impersonation in Silver Dollar. His great weakness was neither whiskey nor women. In these I would say he was normal. His gambling appetite followed him to the grave. When W. S. Stratton gave him a $10,000 present, it lasted only a few days, vanished over the card table...
...their back taxes. In the House 30 Representatives put themselves behind a bill by Mississippi's Busby to issue $3,000,000,000 in new bonds and inflate the currency by that amount in the desperate hope of upping commodity prices. Louder & louder grew the cry to remonetize silver. All that held the inflationists back was a lack of unanimity as to which plan to follow...
...clerk's desk to be read aloud but Senator Glass, determined to wear out his adversary, objected. Senator Long read it himself, slowly, lingering over each word. "Am I going too fast?" he impishly asked. The Senate was practically empty as he expatiated about decentralizing wealth, remonetizing silver, taxing capital...