Word: thrift
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...depression Steiwer maintained that the need of old fashioned thrift was the most important...
Between these fine words and the payment of one son to the U. S. Government stands the embattled thrift of the entire French nation. Nevertheless M. Herriot was properly pleased. He was further pleased when M. Blum said: "It is currently said the foreign policy of a country should not take any account of the internal policies and regimes of other countries. That is a current adage that. I believe, is nearly absolute. We wish to live at peace with all the nations of the world, whatever may be their internal policy or their internal regime." If this meant anything...
...their income through years of prosperity; perhaps there were lots of other families of the same income who were not so thrifty and foresighted; when depression hit both, only the latter were eligible for relief. There thus appears a definite premium on wasteful spending, and a penalty on thrift...
...rich and almost rich, this consideration matters little. For them, relief would be extreme poverty, and they must save anyway in order to protect their usual standard. But for those to whom thrift is a real effort and virtue, for those who are striving by doing away with small luxuries to make themselves independent, self-supporting citizens, thrift means more and more a wasteful activity, and more and more citizens become dependent on the government, rather than on themselves, for economic support...
...political rascals would have us believe, between government paternalism and the present rotten and hap-hazard situation, but between government paternalism and an improvement along liberal, but completely capitalistic lines, an education of all the people according to the good, old-fashioned, bourgeois ideals of individual responsibility, thrift, the home, and suspicion of politics and politicians...