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...candidate for Mayor WillB Hadley was no politician to stir apathetic Philadelphians to white heat. He was a master of figures, not words, a shy, frugal, philosophical man, whose chief joy was his 650-acre farm on the Eastern Shore of Maryland. If he was to have a political career he had to be dramatized. So he acquired a curious jack-of-all-political-trades named Samuel Davis Wilson. Mr. Wilson began issuing statements for Controller Hadley that made news: How city funds bought a barber's chair for City Solicitor Augustus Trask ("Dandy Gus) Ashton; how Coroner Schwarz...
...chief peculiarity in the Cabinet is that he is no New Dealer at heart. All his life he had practiced the virtues which Calvin Coolidge admired. He and his wife, who belongs to a frugal Swiss family acclimated for some generations in Texas, lived modestly, saved out of their income even when it was only $5,000 a year. She worked, and still, from habit, works as his secretary at the Capitol. They "put by," and their fortune grew. Now they have their 350 acres in Uvalde, including a pecan plantation. In their safe deposit box are said...
Cooper is an author who returns to the ancestral mansion in Connecticut after failing in New York. In the Polacks, frugal tobacco farmers who have turned the supposedly useless valley into a gold mine, he finds many new things, new inspiration, new power, and, incidentally, a new love in Anna Sten who will make a good wife because she can "work like two womans." Tarka finds himself in the mood to write the following note. "Not like snow. Very sorry. Not like Connecticut. Me go. Very sorry. Tarka...
...Frenchman moves when the State appoints him Governor of the privately-owned Bank of France looks and smells like a miser's snuggery. Last week the Bank of France's fusty servants, aging pensioners of the world's second largest gold hoard, gloomed darkly over their frugal supper. Their beloved master since 1930, M. Clement Moret, the National Tightwad and, as such, a national hero, had just been kicked upstairs from Governor of the Bank of France to Honorary Governor. He was going to receive the Grand Cross of the Legion of Honor, and soon a lesser...
There also was a Norwegian sailor named Nuggerud. No nature lover, he earned a frugal living fishing off the Galapagos and sailing his odorous cargoes back to the mainland...