Word: tins
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...friend of Boss John Francis Curry, lost his job not because he had been charged with incompetence, permitting gambling in his political club and retaining interest on litigants' money, but because he was unable credibly to explain a personal fortune of $357,000 which, taken from a mysterious tin box, far exceeded his gross public salary (TIME, Feb. 29 et ante...
...Tottenville, N. Y. a clam digger found 22 silver dollars in a tin box in the mud. He sped them to a bank. ¶ Near Fort Wayne, Ind. a farmer hid $250 in an old bureau drawer. Rats chewed the bills to bits so small that banks refused to redeem the trash. ¶ At Los Angeles a 10-year-old boy found a tin can, used it as a target for rifle practice. Out of the can his father extracted eleven $1,000 bills, perforated with bullet holes. A broker accepted the currency in payment for securities...
...question Shire-Reeve Farley himself. The Tammany district leader's voice had a wheedle to it that reporters had not heard when he blustered before the Legislative inquiry four months ago, meeting questions as to his financial resources with the reply that his money came from "a wonderful tin box." The Governor asked about his allegedly incompetent assistants...
...fixed up all the affairs of the world. The only thing we didn't get to was Al Smith and Huey Long. . . . The President was in fine humor and he told the jokes. Said Pennsylvania, the second richest State, was the only one that had passed the tin cup for relief from the Federal Government. He laughed and got a kick out of this...
Broadwayfarers know the songwriting team of Paul James and Kay Swift, whose lilting hits were in the first Little Show and Fine and Dandy. And they know this is no ordinary Tin Pan Alley combine. Paul James is James Paul Warburg, 35. brilliant banker-son of the late great Banker Paul Moritz Warburg. Kay Swift : is his wife...