Word: silver
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...appraised at $1,302,658, the bulk of it in securities. He had explained in his will: "I have always been deeply impressed by an old Jewish proverb which says: 'What you give for the cause of charity in health is gold, what you give in sickness is silver, and what you give after death is lead.' (Many of the rich do not even give lead...
Some $5,000,000 worth of sovereigns, gold bars and silver ingots were in the Egypt's strong room, placed there by one of the Egypt's officers named Cameron. The Artiglio's crew last week wished bad cess to Second Officer Cameron. For a decade he had kept to himself the fact that he had also stowed in the Egypt's strong room tons of silk, small arms & ammunition, and paper rupees worth, if they were valid last week, about $14,000,000. Italian divers had performed the prodigious feat of opening the strong room...
...Silver: ". . . An international conference [on] monetary questions...
...father George Evan Roberts, who was director of the U. S. Mint under Presidents McKinley, Roosevelt and Taft. Upholding the gold standard, the majority, or Roberts report, urged every nation that can do so to stick to gold, flayed proposals for bimetallism or a return to the silver standard...
...custom started by Edward VII. Flunkeys bring food, linen, silver from Buckingham Palace...