Word: frugality
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Keyholer Walter Winchell volunteered his formula for elevating standards without using the $1,000.000: "Put a few surprises in the editorials. ... Be frugal with experts. . . . Give a columnist his say-so. . . . Don't be too sparing of people who try to use the paper. . . . Better reporting on the sports pages. . . . Profanity . . . would be quoted as spoken or not at all. . . . There should be more strife between the rags. . . . The bosses ought to tell daily book reviewers to make one enemy a week, taking a punch in the nose if necessary...
...that time Lee Townsend knew that he wanted to be an artist. So with the money he had saved he went to Chicago's Art Institute for two years, then to Manhattan, where he worked in a drawing class with Mahonri Young. Since then, except for one frugal year in Paris, Artist Townsend has been back on the race tracks every summer because he likes the life...
...small Rutland, Vt., learned that John J. Cocklin, a bookkeeper, had embezzled $251,000 from the bank's savings deposits, lost most of it in the stockmarket. A descendant of pioneer Vermont settlers, Banker Smith quickly reasoned that $250,000 would seem an almost astronomical figure to frugal Rutland depositors, that publication of the loss might cause a ruinous run on his bank. With this in mind he gently eased the defaulting bookkeeper out hushed up the fraud, charged the loss to surplus & undivided profits. Consequently the bank pursued a serene, solvent course as did Banker Smith...
Revered in the frugal offices of James Talcott, Inc. at No. 225 Fourth Avenue, in the heart of Manhattan's mercantile district, is the old desk of the Connecticut Yankee who founded the famed factoring firm in 1854. On the desk is a richly-bound volume of letters written on the occasion of the firm's 80th anniversary by the nation's great. Visitors are allowed to thumb through the volume and, if themselves distinguished, are occasionally invited to sit in the Founder's own chair. Generations of dead Talcotts gaze from their portraits...
...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...