Word: greenbacked
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Money Tree (Patience & Prudence; Liberty). The insouciant, talented girls who smashed through with Tonight You Belong to Me burble out another cutie, a fantasy about the town of Greenback, where everybody's ahead on their income tax, adrivin' next year's Cadillacs...
...Greenback complacency, however, no longer is serviceable on the American-English sporting front, especially as it concerns Harvard. As Carroll F. Getchell, Business Manager of the H.A.A. noted last last month, unless a substantial amount of American cash is found, the Harvard-Yale, Oxford-Cambridge track meet will seen have to be cancelled, perhaps for good. Since Getchell's announcement, a minor international incident has arisen, but little has changed financially...
...Greenback. For President, 72-year-old Seattle Grocer Frederick Proehl; for Vice President, Edward J. Bedell, Indianapolis contractor. The Greenbackers, who favor immediate abolition of Government bonds and issuance of paper money unbacked by metal reserves, had 14 Representatives in the Congress of 1878. This year, admits Proehl, they "won't make much of a scratch." Grocer Proehl is not discouraged, however. "The great majority of my customers," said he recently, "feel that it is quite an honor to do business with a presidential candidate...