Silverite


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Sil´ver`ite


n.1.One who favors the use or establishment of silver as a monetary standard; - so called by those who favor the gold standard.
Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary, published 1913 by G. & C. Merriam Co.
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Piccinich of SL Green Realty Corporation; and Angelo Silveri of Silverite Construction Company, Inc.
Senator Pettigrew of South Dakota, an ardent silverite, stated, "I don't care anything about Cuba ...
On foreign policy, the two men agreed, but the "Gold Democrat" Cleveland differed from the Silverite Bryan on the currency issue and refused to support him.
Borah supported William Jennings Bryan as a Republican silverite in 1896 and emerged as a leader of Idaho Republican progressives by 1902.
Jim Baraneilo of Silverite Construction Group represented 2900 Westchester Company in the Bloom & Streit lease negotiation, and Larry Ruggieri of Cushman and Wakefield represented RPW Group in the Martin Rosner Eleftherion lease negotiation.
Seeking to raise commodity prices for hard-pressed farmers, the silverite insurgents demanded that the federal government implement an inflationary monetary policy of "free silver." Under that policy, the dollar value of sixteen ounces of silver would have been pegged by the Treasury as equivalent to the dollar value of one ounce of gold (Ritter 1997, 183).
Silverite Construction Company, Hicksville, New York, has the overall rehabilitation project contract at the Queens Midtown Tunnel, which calls for roadway restoration and fresh air duct rehabilitation.
Bryan's famous "cross of gold" speech united the silverite wing of the party and took the convention by storm.
Many historians treated the demise of the Second Bank of the United States and the advent of the Independent Treasury system as a lull between the Jacksonian and silverite and Greenbacker upheavals.
Jim Baranello of Silverite Construction Group represented 2900 Westchester Company in the Bloom & Streit lease negotiation, and Larry Ruggieri of Cushman and Wakefield represented RPW Group in the Martin Rosner Eleftherion deal.