Word: silver
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Agreed, under pressure from silver-bloc Senators, to raise the price of silver from 71.1? to 90.5? an ounce...
...place first or second in the first four classes of competition will receive silver or bronze medals. Winners in the fifth and sixth classes will get oak plaques...
...Labour must answer him and he does. Another member wants to know the exact amount of oil and petrol reserves on hand in England, and the Minister of Fuel and Power answers that it would not be in the best interests of the nation to reveal this information. Silver-haired Anthony Eden, handsomer than his pictures make him out to be, rises and wants to know what the Government has done about the Mihailovitch trial in the light of the fact that the British government supported the Chetnik leader for two years. Heavy-set, tough-looking Ernest Bevin lurches...
...Duke & Duchess of Windsor, back at their bomb-nicked Cap d'Antibes chateau, royally entertained a group of U.S. reporters on an Air France publicity junket. Bubbled the New York Herald Tribune's food editor, Clementine Paddle-ford: "Two ice-filled silver buckets . . . sandwiches, one-bite big . . . again and again came the silver trays with fresh glasses of the bubbling champagne...
...people.' ") Occasionally she tried to boss the Boss-shaking her fingers under his nose to demand more funds for a pet project. When the President died, Mrs. Roosevelt sent one of his canes to Mary McLeod Bethune-a carved stick with Franklin Roosevelt's initials on a silver band. Says Mrs. Bethune: "I swagger it sublimely. It gives me strength and courage and nothing to fear...