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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Meantime the dollar was soaring in foreign exchange, the franc had another bad spell, and a near-panic occurred in South African gold shares on the Johannesburg Exchange. Not until after President Roosevelt emphatically denied the rumor a second time did the world's money-changers shake their jitters. The President said he knew of no plan to tinker with the price of gold, that all he knew about it was what he saw in the newspapers. He said he understood the story originated in the foreign press. Nevertheless, suspicion remained that the great gold scare had been founded...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Not Right Now | 4/19/1937 | See Source »

...skates is a skater. A zampillaerrotationist is one who makes a profession or an art of skating-on rollers. I don't like your whim of setting telegrams in caps. Singularly difficult to read them that way. I can't "sense" the meaning; have to spell...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Mar. 15, 1937 | 3/15/1937 | See Source »

...spell broken, we went to look at the sign over the elevator shaft. It was the newest method of retailing crown jewelry and such things that we know. It was a method so daring and courageous in spirit that no Roosevelt defeatism will ever be able to overcome it. For the sign, in careless crayon letters, read out to the clientele, "For merchandise, yell down hole...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Vagabond | 3/8/1937 | See Source »

...Committee seems, perhaps, to side-step the more pressing problem of big time Varsity football, but a second's thought will show how inextricably tied up the question of House, or intra-mural, athletics is with the rest of the program. Gate receipts, gate receipts, and receipts again spell doom or a vigorius existence for all sports, minor or major...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: NOBODY CARES BUT YOU | 2/12/1937 | See Source »

...itself from the middle of the autumn on, and by any impartial observer must have been rated at Thanksgiving as so nearly the equal of any of its recent opponents as to defy comment. Without a first class coach next year, however, Harvard's lack of material would spell a disastrous season. Dick Harlow has shown himself to be a first class coach, and there is every reason to believe that with his return. Harvard will field a team in 1937 which will give future college generations something to reminisce about...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: VANGUARD OF VICTORY | 1/18/1937 | See Source »

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