| 词汇 | cross of gold |
| 词源 | cross of gold. It was the gold standard, “the standard of mon- etary value solely in terms of gold, the single standard,” that William Jennings Bryan, an advocate of the silver standard, re- ferred to when he made his famous Cross of Gold speech at the National Democratic Convention in Chicago in 1896: “You [the rich and powerful] shall not crucify mankind upon a cross of gold.” On the gold standard since 1834, the U.S. legally adopted it in 1900, then abandoned it in 1933. |
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