So, one evening, he persuaded his master to accompany him to the police station, provided with a bundle of ten-rupee currency notes.

Chief Justice Chase held that the clause of the currency laws of 1862 and 1863 which made depreciated paper a legal tender for preëxisting debts was unconstitutional.

WEITSMAN, JAMES J. National currency guide.

When I couldn't locate you and I saw you probably wouldn't be at the Senate chamber in time to make your speech on the naval base bill, I persuaded Senator Milbank of Arkansas to rise and make a speech on the currency question, which subject was in order.

But compared with the evil of slavery, what is that of the most pernicious currency scheme ever devised?

Roman economy was honey-combed with problems created by deficit spending, currency devaluation and exploitation.

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People, alarmed at the condition of the banks, began to draw their deposits and hoard them, thereby causing such a scarcity of bills of small denominations that a "currency famine" was threatened.

With another tusk we purchased calicothe chief currency hereto pay our way to the coast.

There was an immense increase in the volume of nominal purchasing power, due to a complex set of causes, of which "currency inflation" may be taken as the symbol.

Among the assisted immigrants and currency lads of the earlier days education was not a strong point; and such newspapers as there were could not be obtained by one-half of the population, and could not be read by a very large percentage of the other half.

She succeeded first, by means of an immense system of smuggling, currency manipulation, and propaganda, in bringing a number of Mongol princes over to her side, and then (at the end of 1935) in establishing a semi-dependent government in North China.

In Kentucky currency mutton and beef were fourpence a pound, in the summer of 1796, while four beef tongues cost three shillings, and a quarter of lamb three and a sixpence.

In 1862 he was assigned to making up the currency packages and fulfilled that duty until his death, in 1894.

And hence, an increase of production really takes place during the progress of depreciation, as long as the existence of depreciation is not suspected; and it is this which gives to the fallacies of the currency school, principally represented by Mr. Attwood, all the little plausibility they possess.

Sure phat's the names of you two darlints?" "EDWIN," he answers, in some wonder, as he hands her a currency stamp, which, on account of the large hole worn in it, he has been repeatedly unable to pass himself.

From 1873 until 1879, prices (in greenbacks) were falling in this country very rapidly because the country with the increase in population, wealth, and business, was "growing up to" its unchanging currency supply.

After long discussion, Congress authorized, by an act passed March 2, 1903, a new currency system based on a theoretical peso of 12.9 grains of gold 900 fine, equivalent to one-half of a United States gold dollar.

Suppose, for instance, that our Civil Service were either notoriously inefficient or believed to be dominated by party influence, and that an organised and fraudulent 'currency agitation' should suddenly spring up.

Speculation accounts for over 90 percent of US currency transactions in any given day.

Now perhaps we are entitled to assume the absence of such currency changes as part of the "other things being equal" which is always understood as implied.

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A civilization which ran a chronic deficitover-spending its incomemoved year by year, through debt, inflation, currency degradation, and repudiation toward its own disintegration and ultimate bankruptcy.

There is no Federal Reserve surcharge on the creation and maintenance of cash, and no danger of government currency depreciation due to matters that have nothing to do with actual production and consumption.