Word: spendthriftness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Forces knew they wanted 419,000. Guardsmen aside, this would make a total of about 1,500,000 regulars in the three services, and an annual cost of perhaps $10 billion-as much as the entire federal budget in the New Deal's most spendthrift days. (The Navy alone wanted -"to spend as much as an average Coolidge or Hoover budget...
Diminuendo. The throttlebottomry of the Philippine Vice Presidency did not diminish Sergio Osmeña's popularity. He lived his quiet life, while dapper Manuel Quezon, quixotic spendthrift, lover of luxury, danced and entertained at Malacañan Palace and junketed about the world. At press receptions, Osmeña served wine, Quezon hard liquor. Osmeña, born with the Chinese hate for the Jap, held his tongue while Quezon was royally received in Japan. When they ran for re-election in 1941, Osmeña polled a higher vote than Quezon...
...woman asked Columnist Haworth for advice on how to keep her errant husband home. Among other things, she was told: "Your husband's encroaching predilection for ganging up with a stag party to loaf his nights away in cocktail lounges, buying drinks for bevies of uniformed women ... is spendthrift carousing...
...office of Budget Director had not existed until 1921; under Smith's predecessors it had been chiefly a device for saying no to spendthrift bureau chiefs. Harold Smith took to this office a new conception of its duties...
...more men he went just as fast. In France, too, his central armies of Group B suffered relatively high casualties. In Russia he won Germany's greatest victories (Bialystok-Minsk, Smolensk, Bryansk-Vyazma) and suffered the greatest losses. Last week he was still sending men to glorious, spendthrift death...