Word: thrift
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...umbrella on the bar of Johnson's saloon, absent himself while the graftee plunked the agreed sum into it, then return and innocently walk off with the umbrella. In eight years, on a union salary of $35 per week, he saved $350,000. "It was with great thrift," he has explained. As early as 1915 "Umbrella Mike" was indicted for a racketeering conspiracy in restraint of trade, jailed after a five-year legal battle. One item of evidence showed that he had extorted $20,000 from Chicago Telephone Co. for permission to erect a building without strikes. After...
...either Mr. Adams or the hand-picked banker nominated to succeed him in 1938-Philip Adolphus Benson. A likable middle-of-the-roader, Banker Benson has been president of Brooklyn's Dime Savings Bank for four years, is 54, small, bright-eyed, quiet and an assiduous speaker on Thrift...
...second feature on the bill, "Spend thrift," although not much to speak of, at least 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...
...Disillusioned by "President Roosevelt's faithlessness to the Democratic platform of 1932,"Mrs. Dwight F. Davis, who as Mrs. Charles H. Sabin worked for Roosevelt and Repeal in 1932, announced in New York that she will campaign this year for Governor Landon. Said she: "He will encourage thrift and self-reliance and will not sneer at success...
...Rowland, who had worked on the paper 40 years, once had charge of the carrier pigeons used to carry spot news copy. Mr. Rowland, who received $25,000 in Mrs. Nieman's will, said he had seen Mrs. Nieman do only a "little drinking," that her extreme household thrift was for the "benefit of the help." Questioned as to why Mrs. Nieman passed over Wisconsin colleges to make a big gift to Harvard, Mr. Rowland averred that Mrs. Nieman simply "did not like Marquette," and that she "didn't like Wisconsin because of Glenn Frank and La Follette...