Word: tinkered
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...first lecture Tuesday, Chauncey B. Tinker, Charles Eliot Norton Professor of Poetry has selected "Poetics Painting in England," in his series of eight on "Literary Tendencies in English Painting...
Sterling Professor of English Literature At Yale, Tinker succeeds Johnny A. E. Roosval, of the University of Stockholm, in the chair established in 1925 by Charles C. Stillman '38 in memory of Charles Eliot Norton 1846, professor of the History...
...statement: "It can hardly doubted that, at present, lowering the of price of gold would help cope with the serious problems resulting from overabundant production." Obvious though this solution for gold overproduction may seem, the chief objection, aside from those offered by interested people like General Smuts, is that tinkering with the price of gold is tinkering with currency. The European bankers, well aware that New Deal has been known to tinker with its currency, departed from Basle last week unconvinced that Washington's denials could be taken at face value...
...another bad spell, and a near-panic occurred in South African gold shares on the Johannesburg Exchange. Not until after President Roosevelt emphatically denied the rumor a second time did the world's money-changers shake their jitters. The President said he knew of no plan to tinker with the price of gold, that all he knew about it was what he saw in the newspapers. He said he understood the story originated in the foreign press. Nevertheless, suspicion remained that the great gold scare had been founded on more than fantasy. Chairman Marriner Stoddard Eccles of the Federal...
...home one point which many opponents of the President's proposal ignored. Said he: "That bill is the mildest of all the bills that could have been introduced on the subject and I marvel, in the present circumstances, at the moderation of the President. . . . His proposal does not tinker with the Constitution. . . . There is nothing in the bill that in any way restricts the Supreme Court acting as it has in the past...