Word: silver
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Supreme Court was ranked, in formal robes; behind the Court the Cabinet, behind them the Diplomatic Corps, brave with braid. At the very front-&-centre stood the little podium, weedy with microphones. Close at hand stood the President's mother in a black hat, a black coat with silver-fox collar, and his wife, in a black broadtail coat and black hat with a feather. On the other side, reflectively surveying his domain, stood pink-cheeked Boss Ed Flynn. Chairman of the Democratic National Committee, in gleaming top hat and Chesterfield coat, thoughtfully chewing...
...returned from a trip to Germany with a list of Nazi sympathizers in the U. S., supplied him by a boastful Nazi. Dr. Birkhead called on some of the men on the list (which included Gerald Winrod, the Kansas messiah; William Dudley Pelley, head of the Fascist Silver Shirts; Harry Jung of Chicago; Colonel E. N. Sanctuary of New York), heard their arguments, and made up his mind that something nasty was brewing for democracy. He gave up his Unitarian church in Kansas City and started the Friends of Democracy...
...evening. (One of the four illustrations in color is Luchow's on a Sunday evening.) In the jungle, too, in a less-than-village, he found Indians praying around a little child in a chair, dressed in white lace and embroidery, her hair decorated with tinsel and with silver wire. She had been dead several days. There were paper wings attached to the dress. The major-domo explained: "The child, who is now an angel up in heaven, is ... carried about in processions from house to house . . . until it is in such a state of decay that...
...power to devalue the dollar that it had given to Franklin Roosevelt, to scrap the Administration's authority (never used) to issue $3,000,000,000 worth of new currency backed by nothing but Government credit, to repeal the Treasury's right to issue $1.29 worth of silver coins for each ounce of foreign silver it buys (current price: 35? an ounce). The board argued that these three measures, adopted during Depression I to combat deflation, are no longer needed. What is needed, thanks to the huge U. S. gold hoard and the booming defense program, is protection...
...hotel room high above Britain's blazing capital, Ernie Pyle last week sent one of the most vivid, sorrowful dispatches of the war. "Some day," he wrote, "when peace has returned to this odd world, I want to come to London again . . . and look down upon the peaceful silver curve of the Thames with its dark bridges. And ... I want to tell somebody who has never seen it how London looked on a certain night in the holiday season of the year...