Word: silver
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Kiang River literally ran red with blood and dead bodies were piled mountain high. . . . One hundred and twenty-four thousand houses were burned, and 300,000,000 silver dollars worth of property destroyed...
...Washington the Senate's subcommittee on trade with China prepared to release this week its recommendation for a silver loan to China. Chairman of the subcommittee is Senator Key Pittman of Nevada, famed "silver state." China is the only great power with currency on the "silver standard," and last week the Shanghai dollar (nominally worth 50 ?) continued its decline to a new low-for-all-time...
...There have been many reports that America was planning to extend a huge silver loan. It is a well-known fact that the silver interests of America, as a result of the tremendous slump in silver prices, find it almost impossible to dispose of their surplus stock, not to mention the problem of finding a market for further production. If China should accept such a loan China in effect would be paying for losses incurred by American silver interests...
...angles and colors is neglected, but the pictures tell in quiet and graphic prose about the little fishing villages flattened on the edge of the Red Sea; pelicans floating like foam-patches in the nervous water; skinny brown fishermen bringing in their shallow boats, piled with the flashing, heavy silver bodies of fish. You can smell the hot breath of Sanaa, see its turbaned merchants, Jewish watchmakers, fleabitten curs, and bearded princes. Al-Yemen reproduces a life apparently contemporaneous with the events described in the New Testament, but having no connection with them. Best shot: Hodeda's ship-bristling harbor...
Married. Leopoldine ("Polly") Elaine Damrosch, Manhattan Junior Leaguer, pianist, daughter of Conductor Walter Johannes Damrosch and Mrs. (Margaret Elaine) Damrosch, granddaughter of the late great presidential Candidate James Gillespie Elaine; and Sidney Coe Howard, playwright (Swords, They Knew What They Wanted, Ned McCobb's Daughter, The Silver Cord), divorced husband of the late Clare Jennes Eames, U. S. actress who died two months ago in England (TIME, Nov. 17); in Manhattan. Ceremony was performed by the Rev. Frank Heino Damrosch...