Word: frugalities
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Such an empty chair, thus illuminated, was to stand next to that of Toastmaster John Huston Finley at a large but frugal dinner in Manhattan's Hotel Roosevelt this week. Throughout the land were to be other empty chairs at other dinners in behalf of Golden Rule Week. Their purpose is to put people in a mood for charity...
...locked up under Government seal. But what, the opposition Press wanted to know, was to be done about their accomplices? Was there one law for Haitians, another for Yanquis? Last week U. S. prestige definitely fell when Collector of Customs David P. Johnson of Hyde Park, Mass., an efficient, frugal man who had been stationed in Haiti twelve years, confessed to cheating Haiti in return for bribes from the Brothers Zrike...
...Russians, who constantly read in the Soviet Press that President & Mrs. Kalinin are extremely frugal folk and that she has managed successively a textile factory and two big collective farms in different parts of the Union during the past few years, Farmer Campbell's chatter would recall Moscow rumors that the President keeps a vivacious mistress who might easily be mistaken by Mr. & Mrs. Campbell for his wife. In Russia, however, the President does not matter. Josef Stalin matters. Last week another part of Farmer Campbell's book-the part in which he describes his meeting with...
...Edouard's Convent, 35 white-coiffed Sisters of the Holy Cross filed quietly into the refectory, bowed their heads at grace, sat down to their frugal supper, when the cellar blew up. Nuns were tossed round the room, the ceiling fell, yet only one Sister was injured, and she not seriously...
...five Studebaker brothers who joined in the business, Mr. Fish, 80, is now chairman of the company. White's entrance into transportation came at about the same time. First roller skates were added to sewing machines, then bicycles. The company was profitable, frugal Thomas White often saying that a man loses value if he is paid more than $5,000 a year "because he spends all his time thinking about how to invest it." In 1899 Founder White and his three sons were rich enough to buy a Locomobile steamer. Tinkerish by nature, they soon were at the boiler...