Word: tinning
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...seem to have most minute information concerning the daily habits of Gandhi. In your own reply to Mr. Beals in the Feb. 1 issue, you describe how St. Gandhi cleans his teeth with a dantan. Perhaps he does, but if so he must hold them in his hand for tin-cleaning process. That is if Sherwood Eddy is the accurate observer that I judge him to be. For Mr. Eddy in his recent book The Challenge of the East writes as follows: ''We remember him again as we sat beside him at meal time...
...Roosevelt. Two months ago Samuel Seabury, inquisitor of the legislative committee probing Tammany corruption, sent the Governor a list of charges against Sheriff Farley, demanded his ousting. Included was the $360,660 deposited by the sheriff in six years, which he feebly explained as coming out of a fabulous "tin box." His motley assortment of incompetent subordinates were also enumerated, including "BigHearted" Joe Flaherty, who gave a saloon to his brother because he was "sick and hard up," and his secretary, one McNulty, who denned his duties as "nothing in particular...
Vincent Youmans was born, not many more than 30 years ago, within wailing distance of Broadway's Tin Pan Alley. His father made hats. A hat he made for oldtime Impresario Oscar Hammerstein now reposes in the cornerstone of the Manhattan Theatre, where Through the Years is playing...
Various states have recognized this situation, and have made half-hearted attempts to relieve it. It Pennsylvania the law compels teachers to continue studying while tin service. But the five days of study for every year of service, required by that state, is a measure of the problem rather than a solution of it. The courses offered by Harvard to teachers in service, leading to the degree of master of education, represent a more genuine attempt at improvement. Unfortunately, such opportunities attract chiefly those of superior ability, while the rank and file of the profession are not influenced by them...
...Australia and most of the South American countries had definitely abandoned the gold standard. There were other important causes--excessive and unwise borrowing during the boom period, the inability of these countries to raise new loans, the collapse in the prices of wheat, wool, coffee, tin and other commodities. But the American tariff, by restricting the ability of the world to pay us with goods instead of gold, was a major factor in forcing a large part of the world off the gold standard and in accentuating the depreciation of many foreign currencies...