Word: minting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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FISCAL Trial of theCoins This week, as on every second Wednesday in February for the last 152 years, the Trial of the Coins was held at the U.S. Mint in Philadelphia. One of the few purely traditional ceremonies in U.S. government, it passed almost unnoticed...
...coins-261,064 of them-had piled up all last year in the pyx box*-one coin from each batch (or part thereof) of 2,000 silver coins delivered from the coining room to the superintendent of all U.S. mints during the year. The Assay Commission (eleven Presidential civilian appointees, three ex-officio members), using the official mint weights, went to work, testing, weighing, counting. To nobody's surprise, the commission found the U.S.'s 1944 coinage sound...
...suggestion of Treasury Secretary Alexander Hamilton, instituted the custom in 1792. Only once has a ripple of discord disturbed the ceremony. In 1801 the trial had to be postponed after the seat of government was moved from Philadelphia to Washington. At this unseemly break in an established tradition, Mint Director Elias Boudinot wrote indignantly to President John Adams, protesting that public confidence in the federal coinage was being undermined...
Oklahoma! Fresh-as-mint folk musical with charming dancing and gay Richard Rodgers tunes (TIME, April...
...historical information, is Van Wyck Brooks's book constructed. Its individual word-portraits-of Alexander Wilson, the dour ornithologist and bird-painter, of Davy Crockett, teller of tall backwoods tales, who thought they made a book "jump out of the press like a new dollar from a mint-hopper," of Fenimore Cooper, whose father gave him 23 farms in New York State when the future novelist was expelled from Yale-are equal to Brooks's best...