Word: silver
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Most credit for inducing the Lausanne Conference to come to some sort of an agreement last week belonged to snowy-haired, silver-tongued James Ramsay MacDonald who suffered agonizing headaches from overworking his weak eyes. When the long grind of 24 days ended, climaxed by 60 hours of almost ceaseless negotiation, statesmen and correspondents gave way completely to their emotions...
...William H. Long of Somerville, N. J. sat in their home, contem plating the rock garden which had won a silver medal in a garden contest last year, and which they hoped would win a gold medal this year. Suddenly an automobile bounded from the road, crossed the curb, plunged into the garden, ripped through vines and hedges, plowed up flower beds, gouged an eight-foot gash in the side of the house, tore away the ivy that had been trained up the wall since 1914, uprooted a four-ton stepping stone, piled up against a maple tree...
Money. ". . . A sound currency. . . . An international conference to consider the rehabilitation of silver...
...Artiglio II's mucky deck carried about $200,000 in gold coin and bullion. Next day they clawed another quarter of a million from the Egypt; the third day enough to make $875,000 old, and one blackened silver ingot. More gold remained; and under the gold, stacks of silver. Commander Quaglia refreshed his men with champagne, and scurried for England. For the French were after...
...value as gold. Each nation could deposit in a central bank a bond equal to the value of her share of reparations. Should any nation attempt to discount this currency she would forfeit her bond. With the first allotment of this currency, each nation would agree to purchase silver. This silver would replace the original guarantee bond, which would be retired immediately, leaving the silver as a bond to function in its place. This money could be called 'Leagues,' with the identification of each Allied nation's stamp on it. Germany agreeing to pay the expense of launching this scheme...