Word: silver
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Thomas Woodrow Wilson, having successfully unveiled a bronze statue of her husband in Poland fortnight ago (TIME, July 13), was in Switzerland last week, just looking around. She stopped at Merges to see silver-maned Ignace Jan Paderewski, donor of Poland's statue, and she went to Geneva to see her husband's greatest memorial, the League of Nations, at work...
Walking gingerly under a large umbrella with a George III silver jug of wine in her hand. Queen Mary leaned over the dock's edge, poured the wine into the water. "I christen this dock King George the Fifth!" said...
...distinguished-citizen-to-whose-inspiration-the-gathering-was-due was the silver-maned Politico-Pianist Ignace Jan Paderewski, first Premier of Republican Poland (1919). He it was who ordered the Wilson statue from the U. S. mountain-molder, Gutzon Borglum, and paid for it. Many years ago he was engaged to give a concert at Stanford University. Subscriptions failed to raise the necessary amount. The treasurer of the concert, an undergraduate working his way through college, presented his own note for the deficit. Paderewski returned the note to the concert treasurer, Herbert Clark Hoover...
...addition to silver practically all commodities rose, including the baser metals. The most spectacular performer of these was volatile copper which jumped from 8? (New York) to 9? as domestic and foreign buyers threw large orders into the market. Lead and zinc followed along. Typical of the increase in trading was the excitement in Manhattan's Raw Silk Exchange where trading reached almost 4.000 bales a day after being at 80 a few weeks ago. Startled pages and clerks hurried to put their summer linen-suits on a fortnight ahead of time. In Tokio, Japanese bears talked of harakiri...
...Official Chinese name for Equitable Eastern Banking Corp., Chase's big unit, is "Dah Tins Ning Hong," or "The Big Silver Bank Known Around the World...