Word: pincher
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...other hand, already knows what a million looks like. In 1958 Rommel and lis family started collecting pennies in a glass jar. By last Thanksgiving he reached his goal of 1 million, which he stored in rolls of 50 in a footlocker. Last week the penny pincher deposited the 3½ tons of coppers in a bank, and promptly wrote out a check for a $7,500 Cadillac...
PENNSYLVANIA. Democrat Pete Flaherty is considered ahead in the Governor's race, partly because he was a penny pincher even before Proposition 13. As mayor of Pittsburgh, he trimmed the city payroll by about 25% and reduced real estate taxes. Even so, neither Flaherty nor his G.O.P. opponent, Richard Thornburgh, is calling for a state tax cut, since Pennsylvania is running a small deficit. Instead, both are proposing constitutional amendments to limit state spending. As U.S. Attorney for Western Pennsylvania, Thornburgh sent some 200 gangsters and corrupt public officials to prison. But one of these, Numbers Racketeer Anthony Grosso...
Uneasy over the country's growing reputation as an Alpine penny pincher, the government recently won parliamentary support for a modest $80 million contribution to the World Bank to help the world's neediest nations. But an odd coalition of extreme left-and right-wing politicians launched a popular initiative against the proposal.When it came to a referendum last week, the Swiss resoundingly rejected the aid scheme, 713,855 to 550,557. The Tribune de Genève fretted that the outcome betrayed an "egoistic, isolationist trait in the Swiss character," but that hardly came as a surprise...
Getting Penny Pincher Jack Benny to kick $300,000 into a shaky oil scheme is no easy job. Enticing Financial Cognoscente George J.W. Goodman ("Adam Smith," author of The Money Game) to chip in $110,000 seemingly should be even harder. Or consider trying to gull $211,000 out of Walter Wriston, chairman of the First National City Bank...
That does not exactly make McGovern a penny pincher; his program would still cause a considerable change in national direction. The Senator proposes $44 billion in new annual federal spending by 1975, plus a one-shot $10 billion program to create public-service jobs for people who cannot find work in the private sector. Of the total, $30 billion consists of proposals to greatly expand federal aid to education, hospital construction, public transit, drug-control programs and the like. The remaining $14 billion represents the cost of a new "national income insurance" plan to aid the poor, replacing...