Word: frugalities
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...these frugal, property-owning New Englanders, the President spoke as a New Englander ("How much have we spent? Enough to get results"); as one Capitalist to another ("You and I are used to venturing capital to gain profits"). Repeatedly he called attention to New England's recovery and urged that prosperity of the whole U. S. was necessary to make New England prosperous-thereby apologizing for the fact that in proportion to the taxes it has paid New England has received but a tiny share of Federal bounty. At his chief speech, in Worcester, he tackled taxes themselves, declared...
...Treasurer in most old-line New England companies is the real boss. Boss Dumaine started as an office boy in Amoskeag's Boston office in 1880, rose not only in Amoskeag but in Boston's Old Colony Trust Co. Two-fisted and frugal, Treasurer Dumaine looked a looming 1928 deficit in the eye, turned down a $42,000,000 offer for Amoskeag's plant and assets, promised: "I am ready to do all possible, institute every economy, shoulder every responsibility and stand every criticism, to carry...
...President Eugene Francis McDonald Jr. Born 48 years ago in Syracuse, N. Y., he left Syracuse University to work in the Franklin Automobile plant pushing a bastard file through aluminum. Before the War he went to Chicago, there to sell Fords on the installment plan, then sternly disapproved by frugal Henry Ford. After a couple of years in the Naval Intelligence Service, Mr. McDonald drifted around Chicago looking for something to put his money in. In 1920 he heard one of KDKA's broadcasts, liked it, and when he discovered two young men with a passion for building radio...
...Chicago Daily News. Yet this sudden burst of horse-consciousness on the part of the Republican publicity men does not mean the G.O.P. is trying to portray its prophets as members of a wealthy and notedly extravagant class. The technique may be wrong but the idea is right:--"Frugal Alf" Landon, "he balanced Kansas' budget", thirty, honest, simple...
...yellow most difficult to scrub clean. After she had done her work, Mrs. Hampshire had pressed upon her by her Oriental creditor a blue serge suit with bloodstains all over it. Explained Ratanji, "I cut my finger opening a can." The waistcoat was so badly stained that even the frugal charwoman could think of nothing to do with it except burn...