Word: pinchfists
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...pension provision, buried in a general civil service pension bill, had passed the House without a word of debate, without a roll calla Congressional device often used to avoid later embarrassment. In the Senate, silent acquiescence had been spoiled by the noisy opposition of Virginia's veteran pinchfist, Harry F. Byrd. Their names were writ large on the record...
...Deal pinchfist is Harold Le Clair Ickes, Secretary of the Interior, known to one & all as a very tough man with a dollar. He is the only Cabinet member who tiptoes about his Department turning off electric lights and running water fountains; his WPA was managed on a theory of Federal economy directly opposite to that of Harry Hopkins' WPA. But he has long reserved special wrath for a widespread business practice: submitting identical bids on Government contracts. Long ago Mr. Ickes discovered, with a Donald-Ducklike squawk, that there is almost no such thing as a low bidder...
Added to the usual list of farmer-fattening measures, these last week clearly demonstrated Congressional scorn for any policy of peeling-paring, pinchfist economy...
...majority seemed to agree with the Senate's biggest apple-grower and economiser, peeling-paring pinchfist Mr. Byrd. Many went further than Senator Byrd. Furthest went the Washington Post, which asked in an editorial, "Where Is the Sacrifice?" Said the Post, pointing to the President's "failure" to cut non-defense expenditures: "This is a strange application of the President's thesis that sacrifices must be made by everyone in the interests of national security. ... He has recommended only petty economies. . . ." For the same reasons the New York Herald Tribune called the Budget "disheartening...
Nobody contradicted Pinchfist Woodrum, but the House whooped down his proposal to kill the bill...