Word: pocketbooks
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...tucked those toward the rear of his mind, to concentrate on the one problem which his Frenchness told him was closest to the center of France's illness. André Siegfried once remarked of the petit bourgeois that "his heart is on the left, but his pocketbook is on the right." Pinay built his policy as Premier around one object-the Frenchman's pocketbook...
...Texas and Illinois last week, art lovers set out to bring good paintings and lithographs within reach of the average family's pocketbook, but their ideas of a bargain were as different as a ten-gallon hat and a tapered fedora...
...time of unprecedented prosperity, with 62.5 million men & women at work, the voters repudiated the party in power-repudiated an administration which held the awesome political leverage of a $80 billion-a-year budget. The Democrats frankly fought the campaign on the pocketbook issue: "Don't let them take it away." To the last, in spite of all that Ike and his friends could say, an overwhelming majority of Americans believed that the Democratic Party "was better for them personally" in an economic sense than the Republican Party...
Along with the trend toward neatness and feminity and the emphasis on belts, accessories of all kinds are getting attention. The all-purpose leather pocketbook is being made in a variety of shapes and sizes, a boon to the little girl who looks as if she's carrying her laundry when she sports an Amazon-sized satchel bag. The favorite all-purpose gloves are still string-knit, with the British product out in front...
...dingy, neglected buildings in the main shopping district of Elgin, IL. have long been eyesores. But lately their shabbiness has done more than just hurt the eyes; a modern business district, going up in the town of Skokie some 25 miles away, has threatened to hurt Elgin's pocketbook as well. Last week Robert C. Kewley, president of the city's Union National Bank and Trust Co., was busily sprucing up Elgin (pop. 44,223). He offered loans up to $7,500 at 1% interest (v, the going rate of 3 to 6%) without collateral to anyone...