Word: tinned
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Pittsburgh, Secretary of Labor Davis addressed the 47th Annual Convention of the Amalgamated Association of Steel, Iron and Tin Workers. He recalled his 35-year membership, hailed the new day of cooperation between employer and employe, admonished the workers to "ease up on such strict rules" as charging the employer a full day's wage for a one-hour...
Died. Warner M. Leeds, 57, tin-plate man, brother of the late William B. Leeds, "Tin-plate King"; in Manhattan, of tuberculosis of the lungs. The bulk of his estate, valued at several millions, will go to Joy Leeds, twelve-year-old adopted daughter. Two years ago, Mrs. Leeds died from a fall from the fifth-story window of their home...
Born. To William B. Leeds and Mrs. Leeds (Princess Xenia of Russia), a daughter (seven and one-half pounds); in Manhattan. He is the 'son of the late Princess Anastasia of Greece (who was the wife of William B. Leeds, tin-plate king, before she married Prince Christopher); she is the daughter of Grand Duke George, second cousin of the late Tsar...
Washington chuckled, the whole country grinned. The President had been caught taking an illicit horseback ride. He has a mechanical hobbyhorse in his dressing room-a horse with a tin body, on which is cinched an ordinary saddle. By pressing successive buttons, the horse can be made to trot, to canter, to gallop at various speeds-an electrical motor supplying the motion (which is entirely vertical). Three times a day, for ten minutes, he rides...
From the first, Baker adopted a hard, offensive style calculated to upset Dixon's more conservative gime. Repeated smashes from the front of the court to an inch or two above the tin proved too difficult for Dixon to return, so that after the second game little doubt remained as to the outcome. From first to last Baker's was a brilliant game and showed great improvement over his former match with Dixon on January 10, in the Harvard-B. A. A. contest. On this accasion Dixon won by a very slight margin, the games standing...