Word: thrifting
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...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...
...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...