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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...furnish a new and appropriate form of currency to circulate vicariously for the silver that the Treasury is buying in quantity (see p. 17) Secretary Morgenthau last week announced a new form of silver certificate. The same size as present dollar bills, it will be distinguished by an unfamiliar but appropriate design. On the back it will bear the well-known obverse likeness of the Great Seal of the U. S. (adopted in 1782), the eagle with E Pluribus Unum in its beak, a branch of olive in one talon, a clawful of arrows in the other. And alongside will...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MONEY: Seal Dollar | 8/26/1935 | See Source »

...gleaming black-&-silver monoplane, Miss Ingalls' dander rose when a bystander said something about a possible funeral. ''You be quiet!" she snapped, blue eyes blazing. Tiny (5 ft. 1 in.) Miss Ingalls next became angry over an airport ruling that she had to use an unfamiliar runway. Finally she took off, headed west, reached Burbank...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Transport: Act of Faith | 7/22/1935 | See Source »

...Einstein and his associate deemed best to call "bridges." The bridges turned out to be particles. The properties of one bridge identified it as a particle with mass but no electric charge, like the hypothetical neutrino or the familiar neutron. Another bridge indicated the existence of a totally unfamiliar particle, having electric charge but no mass whatever. Particles like protons and electrons, having both mass and charge, seemed to Einstein to represent "two-bridge problems"-two points of space connecting the two space-sheets. The gentle professor was relieved to find that his new mathematics dredged up no particles...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Toward Unity | 7/15/1935 | See Source »

...that the bill would be passed-not as originally drafted giving the Securities & Exchange Commission the right to exterminate any holding company but as a fairly healthy measure of reform. Then late one afternoon last week when no Senator desired to hear any more on the subject, an unfamiliar voice piped...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE CONGRESS: Rear Row Voice | 6/17/1935 | See Source »

...Administration measures. Indeed the Senate had only heard that voice once before, in March year ago, when it delivered a short homily in favor of Franklin Roosevelt's St. Lawrence Waterway proposal. Senators who had been on the point of leaving the Chamber tarried to hear that unfamiliar sound...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE CONGRESS: Rear Row Voice | 6/17/1935 | See Source »

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