Word: silver
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...United States could well afford to take the lead in asking for a general conference ... to determine what can be done to restore the purchasing power of that half of the world's inhabitants who are on a silver basis...
...letter from Charge d'Affaires Osborne agreed to all the original Stimson requirements. Reparations, debts, and specific tariff rates will not be discussed. But the Conference will talk about international tariff policies. And it will bother its collective head about what to do with the world's silver...
...When the Conference got around to electing the chairman of its Committee on Currency last week, it chose Canadian Minister of Trade & Commerce Henry Herbert Stevens, famed for his perennial plea, "Remonetize silver...
...company of Col. Leopold Stennett Amery, onetime Secretary of State for Dominion Affairs in Great Britain, today a lobbyist. "We," said Col. Amery. "are not advocating anything so extreme as the old Bryan formula of 16 to one.* But much would be accomplished if governments would put a better silver content into their subsidiary coins and if they would allow their central banks to hold some silver as a backing for their currency issues...
...market price the ratio of silver to gold today is 76 to one. ?The silver in a U. S. silver dollar is worth today 21?...