Word: tinkered
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Freshman summary: Score: New Hampshire 24; Harvard 32. Time: 18.51. Winner; R. S. Playfair '36, Webster (NH), MacLean (NH), Tinker (NH), J. R. O'Neill '36, Mathews (NH), L. H. Orr '36, D. Gratwick '36, Marlak (NH), Thompson (NH), L. C. Lean '36, T. L. Day '36, E. W. Dalton '36, Spear (NH), Greene (NH), McNally (NH), R. M. Peet '36, A. M. Josephy '36, E. T. Farley '36, Chase...
Like all food companies, Gorton-Pew faces lower selling prices. Tinker mackerel, haddock, cod and other piscine products sell at about half what they did two years ago. But like other food companies Gorton-Pew's faith is buttressed by the knowledge that people must eat. And in many a U. S. home the codfish ball is still a Friday night and Sunday morning institution. The better to send forth cod to hungry consumers, last week Gorton-Pew opened a new plant which can turn out 48,000 10-oz. cans of ready-to-fry codfish cakes...
...Later RKO directors elected Mr. Aylesworth president in place of Hiram Brown. RKO is better off than it was a year ago. So is Universal, run by old Carl Laemmle's smart son "Junior," who started the monster cycle. Most extraordinary personnel changes were in Fox, where Edward Richmond Tinker, long with Chase National Bank, became president to succeed Harley L. Clarke, onetime utilities tycoon. Six months later Mr. Tinker became board chairman, was succeeded a president by Sidney Kent, onetime Paramount general manager. Winfield Sheehan, who last winter suffered a nervous breakdown and was reported out of Fox, last...
...Lyman Clarke, Chicago utilities tycoon (Utilities Power & Light), who startled filmdom when his General Theatres Equipment, Inc. gobbled control of Fox at a crucial point in its history. Last autumn Mr. Clarke was relieved of the presidency, made chairman. In his place was put his good friend Edward Richmond Tinker, also friendly with Chase National Bank (TIME, Nov. 30). Last week Mr. Tinker assumed the chairmanship and Mr. Clarke resigned, remaining as a director. With General Theatres in receivership, control of Fox now rests with Chase National rather than with G. T. E. and Mr. Clarke...
...obvious revelation of a life story or of superficial traits were disappointed. It was abstract, idealistic music, touched only here & there with humor sounded by piccolos and the xylophone. Large, amiable Mrs. Stock once gave a homely word-portrait of the Stock who likes to build furniture, tinker with electricity. After a particularly strenuous piece of conducting, when he was effusively mopping his brow, she leaned over to the next box, said: "Oh, my poor Frederick, he sweats...