Word: silver
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...round pistol practice, taught by Coast Guard cracks, for all armed agents of his Customs Bureau, Alcohol Tax Unit, Bureau of Narcotics, White House Police, Bureau of the Mint, Secret Service, Bureau of Internal Revenue, Uniformed Force of the Secret Service, Public Health Service. He put up a handsome silver Morgenthau Trophy and several other prizes for annual competition...
Last week the Government of President Lázaro Cárdenas remained financially above water largely by reason of U. S. Secretary of the Treasury Henry Morgenthau Jr.'s continued purchases of Mexican silver. Mexico was in the grip of an economic upset. One day last week the great square in front of the Presidential Palace was turned over to the 25,000 demonstrators of the CTM (Confederation of Mexican Workers). The CTM Secretary General, intense Vicente Lombardo Toledano urged support of the Mexican New Deal, proclaimed: "All property owners and capitalists in Mexico are Fascists...
Although Roman Catholic monasteries in Hollister, Calif. and Paterson, N. J. possess what they believe are relics of the True Cross, the most remarkable one in the U. S. is in private hands. A two-inch fragment in a silver reliquary, it long belonged to the House of Habsburg, was given by Joseph II to an Austrian family named Wurschinger. In 1927, Alfred Wurschinger, an importer, brought the relic to the U. S., was offered $65,000 for it when news of it got into the press. Unwilling to sell, Owner Wurschinger insured the fragment...
...five-hour tussle ensued, the marlin's sharp dorsal fin and sickle tail slicing the ocean swells as he fought on the surface, his great cobalt-&-silver length breaching into the air five or six times as he "walked on his tail" to shake the hook...
...Chicago, and the university's Rockefeller-endowed Oriental Institute started digging there in 1925. The diggers found the palace of the Egyptian princes with a gaudily painted court and a washroom paved with seashells; a rich hoard of art objects in gold, ivory, lapis lazuli and electrum (gold-silver alloy); an inscription of the Pharaoh Shishak who plundered Jerusalem; and stables built by King Solomon large enough to house 300 horses...