Word: thrifting
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...believe that thrift is essential to well-ordered living and that economy is a prime requisite of a sound financial structure, whether in government, business or personal affairs...
...Tall, grey, fierce Mr. Taber bellowed so loud one afternoon last year that he jarred loose the stopped ear canals of Representative Leonard Schuetz of Illinois, restored Mr. Schuetz's hearing (TIME, May 20). On that day, as on many a day before and since, earnest, thrift-minded John Taber was snorting his wrath at Franklin Roosevelt, whom he always denounced as the wrong man to trust with a taxpayer's dollar. One day last week Republican Congressmen burst out of a party caucus as if they had seen a ghost, blurted to reporters: "John Taber...
Hatching in Congress is a Treasury plan to help finance the nation's colossal bill for defense: the sale of baby bonds and thrift stamps. The scheme roused dusty memories of War Savings Stamps and Liberty Loan drives. Other memories of the same era will be buried this week with William Gibbs McAdoo, the tall, spare, sprightly man with the high voice and the face like Punch, who led the drives...
...winner by this tiny margin was another unusual figure, an insurance tycoon, J. Adhemar Raynault, who once before left his business to serve briefly as Mayor of Montreal, gave the city an administration active in Red-baiting. No spendthrift, M. Raynault slashed civic expenses. In his Gallic thrift Mayor Raynault had the mayor's official $1,400 fur robe stuffed away in a city vault to save the annual 3% furrier's storage charge. Moths ate all but the buttons...
Oliver Wiswell is also contemporary. The tragic dilemma of Oliver Wiswell and the tories is a central tragedy of our time. They learn what modern exiles have to learn: 1) that decency, thrift, sobriety, intelligence have no value in a civil war; 2) that there is no hope for the vanquished in a social revolution except to start life over again in a new country. Says Author Roberts through the mouth of troubled Oliver Wiswell: "God grant to all peoples a Wilderness Trail at whose end they can find surcease from demagogues, interference, greed, intolerance and politicians...