Word: pocket-book
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Lest it be supposed that cries of "freedom", while good for a round of applause, do not have the impact of "pocket-book" issues on the voter, one may recall last year's Wheat Referendum in which over a million wheat growers participated. Secretary of Agricultture Freeman warned that the defeat of the wheat control program would mean a thirty per cent drop in farm income, but the farmers followed the Farm Bureau's slogan, "for freedom, vote 'no'", and a majority voted against the Administration's proposal. It may be difficult for Eastern liberals to understand, but in those...
...Widener "drug-store novels" differ a great deal from the present "breast-sellers" offered in pocket-book form on bookstands today. They are almost always bound with a brightly-colored cover, and are printed on coarse, cheap paper. While the more recent drugstore favorites feature ill-clad or unclad women, the Widener volumes make an appeal via racy titles...
...spite of the signature "Harry S. Truman" which made law of the new price control measures yesterday, inflation's holiday still has official permission for a one-month extension. How much cain it can raise with the national pocket-book until August 20 continues to depend upon the cash restraint that buyers can show towards still scarce foods, clothing--even automobiles...
Tunis lists as the chief requirements for honorary degrees under our system a fat pocket-book, a same of publicity value, an influential place in politics, or the position of college president. There are, to be sure, other avenues of entrance into the charmed circle, such as a career in education, sciences, literature, or journalism, but at a modern American commencement men from these fields are definitely playing "minor league" and as a rule are far from distinguished even at their own work...
...great majority, however, such a return to Cambridge is Impossible. While the spirit is willing, even eager, the flesh or the pocket-book or the conscience is weak, and the invitation to regress to the age of incipient maturity must be regretfully declined. For these it is that the annual meetings of the several Harvard Clubs are designed. These meetings bring together men with a great mutual bond, they serve to acquaint graduates of the University everywhere with the progress that is being made in Cambridge and with the changes that time is slowly effecting along the banks...