Word: spendthriftness
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...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...
...this spendthrift energy produced, beside mob cheers and showers of torn paper, just two addenda to the history of the campaign of 1936. One was the emergence of the Social Security Act as a prime issue. Capitalizing their belated discovery that the 1% tax on wages which goes into effect next January to begin a sinking fund of some $40,000,000,000 for workers' annuities was a vote getter for Republicans (TIME, Nov. 2), Governor Landon and his cohorts hammered it home, while Franklin Roosevelt & friends cried "Shame," "Falsehood," "Coercion...
...does not pretend to be serious. It is the crude isle of a designing woman marrying a dumb aristocrat for money. However, Henry Fonda and George Barber with a great many really funny wise cracks, and their humorous gyrations make for ridiculous coincidence. There is more honest enjoyment in "Spendthrift" than "To Mary With Love...