Word: spendthrift
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Consolidated papers was cut from $500,000 to $100,000. No longer ruler of the empire he built, Hearst has only two desires concerning it: 1) to have some of it survive him; 2) to keep his job. Nearing 76, the man who was the most spectacular publisher and spendthrift of his time wants to die a newspaperman...
...medieval age," said he, "had its wandering scholar. We have our itinerant or fleeting scholar. Hundreds of thousands of these itinerant students move from college to college, each armed with his letter of credit." Dr. Jessup found that collegiate hoboism, once thought of as a shiftless, spendthrift, boomtime phenomenon, had in the past few years reached appalling proportions. Although it is commonly supposed that the typical college student enters as a freshman and emerges from the same college with a diploma four years later, actually today most students transfer or drop out before commencement day. Only one-third receive degrees...
...Most spendthrift of U. S. foundations has been the General Education Board, which John Davison Rockefeller established in 1902 for "the promotion of education within the U. S. without distinction of race, sex or creed." By last December it had spent $255,334,670. Since 1920 its trustees, believing the future "will find means to provide for itself," have been giving away the principal as well as the income of this fund.* Last week President Raymond Elaine Fosdick reported that the General Education Board has only $8,700,000 still unpledged, will soon be liquidated...
...Senator comes oftener and with more insistence for PWA grants than this same Senator Glass." From his home in Lynchburg, back cracked Senator Glass, overflowing with indignation and invective: "Secretary Ickes has become a confirmed blackguard, saturated with hate for every member of Congress who voted against spendthrift practices of the New Deal authorities and against projecting the Government into every conceivable species of business. His statement concerning me is simply a wanton falsehood. I doubt if there is a member of Congress who has had less than I to do with so-called Government grants. . . . Horatius-at-the-Bridge...
...Marie Antoinette, MGM furnishes its fussiest star with her first role since Romeo and Juliet and maintains its position as the industry's supreme spendthrift. The picture presents French royalty as what it always has been for the cinema: a field day for dressmakers and writers of "O Sire" dialogue. The peak moment of Marie Antoinette occurs when Miss Shearer appears in a little number run up for her by MGM's famed Adrian, the skirt of which is held out by three-foot fenders on each side with two handles for its occupant to hold when turning...