Word: tender
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...limited in issue to $346,681,016 (protected by a gold reserve of $152,000,000); legal tender for all debts, public and private, except Customs and interest on the public debt; payable in gold at the Treasury...
Silver Certificates. Issued in the same denominations as Greenbacks, excepting $500 and $1,000; unlimited in issue, for silver dollars in the Treasury; not legal tender; receivable for customs, taxes and all public dues; redeemable in silver dollars at the Treasury...
...Physician, an opportunity of eulogizing Bacchus. He said that alcohol, if taken in moderation, added to " the pleasure, exhilaration, happiness and gayety of life." For the practical purposes of the bill he said that alcohol was not necessary to youth, as experience showed that it was at the tender ages damaging to the nervous system...
...Bishops at the Episcopal Convention in Portland, Oregon, last September was asked by the Diocese of Arkansas to depose him. This request was refused by the House on the ground that Bishop Brown was "mentally irresponsible." Then a committee of five bishops was appointed to ask Bishop Brown to tender his resignation voluntarily. He refused to meet them. Last week he sent a letter to the House of Bishops stating the conditions on which he would resign, the nonacceptance of which would force the Church to a heresy trial. The letter includes the following demands on any committee which...
Ever since a law was enacted by the Cuban Government making American currency legal tender in that country, many Federal Reserve notes found their way into circulation there. This led to the demand that a branch of a Federal Reserve Bank be located in Cuba...