Word: silver
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...President extended to June 30 the Government's silver subsidy, whereby it pays 64.64? per troy ounce for new-mined U. S. metal (world price...
Ignoring Arita's veiled threat, the U. S. Treasury Department announced last week the indefinite extension of an arrangement with China which permits China, when caught short of cash between her monthly shipments of silver to the U. S., to make and pay for purchases in this country by borrowing from the Treasury's $2,000,000,000 Stabilization Fund on the security of Chinese gold held in U. S. banks (estimated to be somewhere around $110,000,000). When China's next shipment of silver arrives in the U. S., she sells it to the Treasury...
...valets, ladies' maids, society reporters and the President of the U. S. opened last week. With the Cabinet Dinner and the Diplomatic Reception, President & Mrs. Roosevelt started their annual round of state parties in the White House. Red-haired young Mrs. Ickes in vivid green satin shot with silver was a cynosure at the Cabinet affair, her official debut. The diplomats' party glittered with the uniforms of chargés d'affaires but only ten out of 19 Ambassadors were present: Mexico's Francisco Castillo Najera was absent in Lima; German Hans Dieckhoff had been called...
...continue the New Deal by staying in harness where I am than by going into this contest in Chicago." Two days later Honest Harold Ickes visited Chicago, expressed his regrets to his would-be drafters ("I know you wouldn't want to kill me"), broke ground with a silver drill for the Chicago PWA-financed subway, ran out to Winnetka to inaugurate a grade-crossing project...
GRACE VERNE SILVER Los Angeles, Calif...