Word: silver
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...upon a checkerboard, the plane zig-zagged across Minnesota, the Dakotas, Montana, Colorado, Wyoming and settled down one afternoon last week at Salt Lake City.* Thus the campaign manager of the Presidential nominee who had declared for a sound currency "convertible into gold" arrived in the heart of the silver country...
Every local newshawk who gathered around the GOP manager had silver on the tip of his tongue. John Hamilton, deciding that discretion was the better part of politics, promptly produced for them a compromise interpretation of Governor Landon's gold standard...
...airman to his wife, onetime Cinemactress Emmy Sonnemann, and to the latest of his series of lion cubs, each of which is returned to the zoo when it grows too big and surly. To the Lindberghs he showed his enormous collection of silverware, saying: "I have always liked silver. Now I think I have the finest collection of any private individual in the country...
...future I shall play only in tournaments that fit in well with my work." Up for auction in Denver came the last tawdry possessions of Elizabeth Bonduel McCourt ("Baby") Doe Tabor, who was frozen to death last year after 35 years of guarding the abandoned Matchless Silver Mine, once worth $1,000,000 to her husband, the late wealthy U. S. Senator Horace Austin Warner ("Haw") Tabor (TIME, March 18, 1935). To an eager crowd were offered a dozen silver nut picks, a pearl-encrusted fan, 50 silk handkerchiefs, a quart of rye whiskey, dozens of photographs, a gold safety...
Chinese censorship will rigidly suppress the facts and Chinese consuls abroad will loudly protest rumors, but what Canton, Shanghai and Nanking were saying last week boiled down to this: 1) General Chen took "silver bullets" from the Japanese and bought a good many lead bullets as a gesture to bring himself seriously to the notice of Nanking. 2) He then accepted "silver bullets" not to fight Nanking, which considered this a good investment as it thought he would never get away with the $30,000,000 in "small money" which would thus fall to them. 3) General Chen was shaken...