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...stowaway on a German liner. Deported, he stowed away again on another ship later in the year. He managed to get ashore, find work as a carpenter in New Jersey and New York. He married in 1925. His Bronx neighbors knew him only for thrift and taciturnity. After 1932, when his wife went abroad for the summer, he was never regularly employed, yet always seemed to have ample funds. He told neighbors he was trading in furs, making money on Wall Street...
...Andrew Jackson was fighting the Bank of the United States and New York commerce was paralyzed by an epidemic of cholera when the Bowery Savings Bank opened for business one hundred years ago last week. The Bowery was notorious for two things: vice and thrift. Fifty men and women, butchers, grocers, seamstresses, shoemakers, came in the first night to deposit savings of $2,020 which later were kept in the bank's two tiny leather-covered chests. A mutual savings institution for the poor and downtrodden, Bowery Savings was heavy with the smell of Sunday School and the mission...
...Manhattan, J. Robert Stout, 55, president of the International Benjamin Franklin Society, founder of Educational Thrift Service and onetime president of the New York Rotary Club, asked a dozen assorted bankers, psychologists, admen and businessmen to lunch. After lunch, Mr. Stout presented each of his guests with a booklet containing 100 exceedingly personal questions which were designed to foster sharp self-appraisal, shame the questionee to better behavior. Each answer carried with it a grade, and the final total of plus and minus ratings located the individual in society. Some questions...
...Republic of the Stars and Stripes," editorialized Vito Mussolini, "have crashed under the weight of realities. ... Is this a prolog to a new international morality? . . . The Republic of the Stars and Stripes ... is the supreme conciliator of extreme contradictions, such as puritanism and Hollywood or such as the thrift of the farmers of the West and the audacities of Wall Street...
...serve his route. In contrast, there is little to be said against boys acting as carriers of afternoon papers in residential districts, and much in favor of it. They sacrifice a couple of hours of play time every after noon, but they learn punctuality, dependability, business acumen, thrift. Usually they are well supervised by their employers. Thus: the Des Moines Register & Tribune cooperates with parents, awards college scholarships to its best boys...