Word: silver
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Smoot whom Utah voters summarily retired for Democrat Elbert D. Thomas professor of political sciences at the State University. The defeat of 70-year-old Senator Smoot whose name adorns the discredited Republican tariff, was attributed in part to his failure to get something done at Washington to up silver and copper prices...
...peace, particularly among flyers of all nations. He established the Ligue Internationale des Aviateurs which awards a Harmon Trophy for each year's top air feat among the nations. He has long tried to interest the League of Nations in establishing an international air force to be called "Silver Wings of Peace." One of its functions would be to fly over troubled countries and drop tracts begging them to forgive their enemies. Col. Harmon (variously nicknamed "Major" and "Judge"') housed the League in the Bois de Boulogne where he occupies an office as president. (Albert, King...
...collection of seven short stories (of which only three have not before been published) will help fence in more securely her well-established claim to her Kentucky cloudland. Readers who pine for action had best look elsewhere. Nothing much happens in these stories; they are a mirror, not a silver-screen. Some of the reflections: A mountain boy, fired by his teacher with a vague desire for "learning," sets off across the hills to see the world. On the way he meets an old man coming back, sick for home. The boy listens to the old man uneasily...
...prairies, over ragged mountains, through black tunnels, the silver gray wires hum from pole to pole, as they streak their messages across the country. Under great lakes of cold water, across rivers, and rolling on the bottom of black oceans, the dirty, slimy cables tremble with the news they carry to foreign lands. The air is alive with wave lengths, criss-crossed a thousand-fold...
...toothpaste. Special trains will become ordinary for another four years. The American Ambassador to the Court of St. James will try to make people forget that he made a campaign speech for Hoover in Manchester, England; and the Mayor of Boston, that he opened the City Hall to take "silver" contributions to the Democratic Campaign Fund...