Word: thrifting
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...Curtis, as told by his son-in-law the late Edward William Bok,* but it is doubtful if he is a hero to many of those boys. Not that he was unworthy. On the contrary, every turn of his career provides a text for a sermon on honesty, thrift, diligence, perseverance, kindliness, charity. But- and it may well be the fault of his biographers-Cyrus Curtis has never been brought as vividly to life as one might expect of a man whose properties were capitalized at $40,000,000, did better than $100,000,000 business...
...house of cards collapsed. During and after the War plump Horatio helped the British Government against its own wishes and his own paper by organizing a series of lotteries, entitled Victory Club, Victory Bond Club, Thrift Bond Prize Club, Victory Derby Sweepstake, etc., etc. Patriots who could not afford a British bond bought tickets. Horatio Bottomley bought bonds and distributed huge prizes to the lucky winners...
...Detroit. Detroit's two largest banks, representing 90% of its banking resources, instead of opening were firmly closed and sealed by Federal conservators. Two savings banks, one of them taking some commercial accounts, one Morris Plan bank, a commercial bank and one small state "Thrift Bank" were open under restrictions. A few other small institutions permitted withdrawals up to 5% to depositors who could prove they were in need. For practical purposes Detroit banking business was SHUT- shut for the fifth week in succession...
...clients. John P. Morgan's sister Anne, the late Elizabeth Marbury and Amelia Earhart Putnam were among them. Her big offices on Fifth Avenue were always busy. Just before the stockmarket crash, as a member of the Committee on the Financial Education of Women she headed a thrift exposition in Manhattan. Last week Edna V. O'Brien was arrested for grand larceny...
...almost a decade, was the chief representative of the political and social attitude which sent President Hoover to defeat last November. It was that which gave him his great popularity with the masses, since by virtue of his New England traits he stood for the ideals of thrift of sturdy independence, of homely commonsense, which were the national ideals of the nineteen twenties. His fame increased as the ludicrous discordance between these ideals and the sordid reality was ignored. With them he achieved a career of amazing good fortune with little exertion, no supreme test of his capacity...