Word: save
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...coaches, undergraduates, and willing alumni. Last year he sent seven scouts to see Harvard play Princeton. At the Dartmouth game last Saturday it was rumored that he had seven spies on the Green and an equal number for the Crimson. That brings up the ticket problem, but we shall save that for another discussion...
According to Coyle, U.S. society is in the grip of a growing "organization of scarcity"-not because of actual productive lack, but because the oldtime concept of thrift has been subverted into a modern concept of saving. He points out that investors, in their desire to save, have pushed far more money into capital markets since 1919 than business could profitably employ. Rather, they should buy goods and services. (An old Coyle saying: "Saving for a rainy day only makes it rain...
After putting his foot in his mouth while speaking to the press during the Washington Disarmament Conference, President Warren Gamaliel Harding, to save diplomatic embarrassment, ordered that correspondents must put their questions to him in writing. Calvin Coolidge perfected this technique by inventing "a White House spokesman" to whom his words must be attributed. Last week when Franklin Roosevelt wanted to read U. S. Business and Labor a lecture on "sabre-rattling" (see p. 63), comparing them to the bad boys of European politics in a way that might have provoked protests from "friendly nations," the "spokesman" reappeared. He also...
...Germany, on the contrary, belated discovery that a Nazi, even of the Old Guard, is partly of Jewish blood unleashes anti-Semitic decrees against him, and Germany has seen numberless pathetic cases of Jews professing themselves ardently pro-Nazi in vain efforts to save themselves. Before Adolf Hitler came to power his Brown Shirts regularly took up so-called "voluntary contributions" from Jews who hoped that as contributors they would be spared after the Party took over Germany...
Americans may think of Washington freezing at Valley Forge, of Patrick Henry demanding liberty or death, but they never catch Benjamin Franklin in such heroic poses. Instead, the old Philadelphian goes beaming and nodding through history, saying chuckling things to pretty girls, advising young men to save their money and get up early in the morning. Whether he is denouncing the King, flying his kites or delivering himself of his flawless platitudes, he is self-confident, unselfconscious, comfortable, good-natured insatiably curious...