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...article "The Means & the End," anyone who has not spent a day working in a thrift shop (as I have spent many, being affiliated with the Lots for Little Thrift Shop in New York City) has no right to so uncharitably criticize Sylvia McDaniel's "trade secrets." After all, in order to be truly charitable, one must act with prudence...
Pennies & Pledges. As a boy on his family's estate outside Cleveland, young Rockefeller led an overprotected life, dominated by three older sisters, hovering nurses and governesses, and a doting mother. His father taught him caution and thrift; he had to account every week for all the money he earned in household chores, was docked 1? for such delinquencies as being late to family prayers. From his Baptist mother. Laura Spelman Rockefeller, he absorbed a sense of piety and duty. Dancing, the theater, cardplay-ing and other frivolities were frowned on; at ten, young Rockefeller made a vow. which...
...attacking Keynesian theory as un-American and totalitarian. "Even a cursory analysis reveals that Keynesism is not an economic science, but is a political credo which in its main essentials coincides with the communist teachings of Karl Marx." It specifically contends that "Keynesians attack the principle of individual thrift and personal savings" in order to undermine American initiative and freedom...
...Star and the Times have other problems. In recent years, as mounting costs forced the subscription rate up, both papers suffered the circulation loss inevitable in a rural area where thrift-conscious farmers are inclined to drop the big-city paper rather than pay more. Together, the Star and the Times have 671,188 subscribers today, down some 40,000 since 1949. Staffers wonder, too, who will take over when Roy Roberts decides to retire. His key editors have worked long years in his shadow; behind him stands no one groomed to take his place...
...friend of economic growth, not its enemy. What counts, he holds, is "sustainable growth" (a favorite Anderson phrase), which requires capital investment out of savings. "A high rate of saving," he argues, "is indispensable in achieving a high rate of economic growth." And since inflation is the enemy of thrift, it is in the long run the enemy of economic growth...