Word: spending
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Warnings to economize," concluded Dr. Schacht, "are never popular. To spend is pleasanter than to save, and the places to spend money always are more numerous than those which have to provide the money...
Success of the World-Herald's new era depends not only on conservative Publisher Doorly ("Don't spend something you haven't got") and his son Gilbert, the paper's assistant managing editor, but also upon Publisher Doorly's teammate, short, paunchy Pulitzer Prizewinner (1919) Editor Harvey Newbranch who writes lengthy, lucid, politically-effective editorials, dictates many of the paper's policies and has for a son-in-law Congressman Harry Buffington Coffee...
...village character in Salisbury, Md. is seventyish Spinster Mary H. Parsons who was left a substantial estate by her father, Levin Parsons, and who spends her time with one eye on her knitting, the other on stock market reports. Owning a row of brick tenements, farm lands, and a batch of securities. Miss Parsons insists on living in one half of a frame duplex house without electricity or bathtub, wears cotton hose and gingham dresses, likes to haggle with grocers over not quite fresh foods. As kindly as she is money-conscious, she has been known to spend several hundred...
...History plan there will be a small group at the bottom of the Economics list who will receive no tutorial at all, with at the most a few words of advice. This is an excellent change, for it serves the purpose of freeing the tutor from having to spend a great deal of time over men who cannot or will not take advantage of the system. This in turn gives the University a substantial financial saving, and allows the tutor to spend more time profitably on students really interested in the field...
Burbank said that for about 20 years there had been a good deal of waste motion because the tutors had to spend so much time with men who were un-interested or incapable of gaining full benefit from tutorial instruction. This plan was started just before the depression, and the transition was speeded up at first due to financial reasons