bimetallist
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bimetallists
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Dr. Polycarp was, as you all know, an unusually sallow bimetallist.
From The Napoleon of Notting Hill by W. Graham (Walford Graham) Robertson
This effect on the entrepreneur of improvements and of falling prices combined, doubtless accounts for the failure of the bimetallist agitation to secure any appreciable hold in the business world.
From Readings in Money and Banking Selected and Adapted by Chester Arthur Phillips
Senator Sherman is an international bimetallist and a pronounced opponent of independent silver coinage.
From American Eloquence, Volume 4 Studies In American Political History (1897) by Alexander Johnston
"Yes, yes—oh rather," I assented, as one dizzily accepts the propositions of a bimetallist; "and you don't know of anything else——?"
From Some Experiences of an Irish R.M. by Martin Ross
“Yes, yes—oh, rather,” I assented, as one dizzily accepts the propositions of a bimetallist; “and you don’t know of anything else——?”
From Humours of Irish Life by Various
And these are not the figures of bimetallists or silver "theorists," but of pronounced advocates of the single standard of gold.
From Money: Speech of Hon. John P. Jones, of Nevada, On the Free Coinage of Silver; in the United States Senate, May 12 and 13, 1890 by John P. (John Percival) Jones
When the general fall in prices is admitted, the case of the bimetallists as to the appreciation of gold is established once for all.
From Readings in Money and Banking Selected and Adapted by Chester Arthur Phillips
But the bimetallists of our time are disposed to agree with the shrewd Scotchman.
From Readings in Money and Banking Selected and Adapted by Chester Arthur Phillips
It can be said of Jeypore's fair sex that they are bimetallists in the strictest sense.
From East of Suez Ceylon, India, China and Japan by Frederic Courtland Penfield
The bimetallists claimed that this decline was a result of the monetary changes; the advocates of the gold standard asserted that it was due to the great increase in the production of silver.
From The Agrarian Crusade; a chronicle of the farmer in politics by Solon J. (Solon Justus) Buck
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