Word: hoarder
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Dates: during 1928-1928
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...this to be accomplished? By strictest economy, by the tireless picking and pecking of Herbert Mayhew Lord, director of the budget. Arose, therefore, General Lord, hoarder of pennies, good storyteller. Said he: "Are we disturbed? Well, perhaps disturbed, but not discouraged. Down, but not out. We accept the challenge. . . . Expenditure will be kept inside revenue, no matter what the decrease in revenue may be." General Lord stared the deficit in the face, recalled the black days of 1919: "In certain localities it is the custom to refer to the year of the big snow or the great flood. ... I think...