Word: tinkers
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Saturday edition. Back in 1920, the owners of the Post had cast about to find a man who could adequately conduct the Literary Review. They went to the group of literary professors at Yale—the group which included the fluent William Lyon Phelps, the dramatic Chauncey Brewster Tinker (author of Young Boswell) the Chestertonian John M. Berdan, the quiet, sage Charlton M. Lewis, now dead, Dean Wilbur Cross, Editor of the Yale Review, and others less well known. From this group the Post secured Dr. Henry Seidel Canby...
Died. Mrs. Joseph Tinker, 41, wife of the famed former Chicago Cub shortstop, suicide (by shooting) while temporarily mentally deranged, at Orlando...
...Leader of the Opposition, by 285 to 190 votes. Subsequently Mr. Lloyd George condemned the proposed dissolution as " ill-considered, precipitate, foolish." " Can lobsters, crayfish and crabs," he demanded in referring to the results of the Imperial Conference (TIME, Nov. 19), "bind the Empire by trade? It is a tinker's policy. The Government is going to the country with a tin can tied to its tail...
...Street bankers enjoying an outing in Europe is distinctly noticeable. Practically all the chief banking firms now have representatives abroad: Kuhn, Loeb & Co. is represented by Otto H. Kahn; the Guaranty Trust Co. by Charles H. Sabin, Francis H. Sisson, Willis H. Booth; the Chase Bank by E. R. Tinker; the Bankers' Trust by Fred I. Kent. Secretary of the Treasury A. W. Mellon went abroad some time ago and is now in Paris. The latest departure was that of J. P. Morgan - to shoot grouse in Scotland...
Much of the hostility thus far shown to the Reserve System by country banks is believed to be due simply to the old but perhaps inevitable antipathy between country and city banks. New York bankers, viewing with no small alarm the tendency of recent years to tinker dangerously with the Federal Reserve Act in Congress, intend to bring to the attention of the commission some of the good points of the Federal Reserve System when its New York hearings are held...