Word: thrifting
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...discussed at a dinner given by a Cabinet officer for the President and Mrs. Coolidge. The President looked very blank. All angling for information had been futile. The hostess popped out, in spite of herself, with a suggestion. Why, she asked, might not Mr. Coolidge take a chair in "Thrift" at Aberdeen University? President Coolidge smiled broadly...
...Literacy tests-requiring voters to prove that they could read and write. Education of the Negroes spoiled this. 2) Property requirements The Negroes' post-slavery discovery of industry and thrift spoiled this. 3) The "Grandfather clause"-admitting to suffrage any man who voted in 1867 or before, or was one son or grandson of such a man. The practical effect, if not the technical process, of denying Negroes a share in the government is, of course, a violation of the 14th and 18th Amendments to the U. S. Constitution. It has become trite to point out the inconsistency...
Mothers' Day is not in France an occasion for bestowing bonbons, greeting cards or bouquets upon any and every mother. With Latin thrift and logic only especially meritorious mothers are honored-by the State...
...Douglas Haig." Men will remember and revere him for Scotch virtues. The core of his unalterable concept of how to win the War was to husband large reserves of less experienced troops and forge their mettle, year after year in minor actions and intensive training behind the lines. Such thrift was long the despair of the French. It may even have prevented an Allied victory in the early years of the War. But Sir Douglas Haig was inflexible in believing that Britain's "new army" should not join the professional army of France in a desperate thrust...
Economic Welfare. The U. S. population, said the President, has been swelled by immigrants "almost always without money and too often without learning. . . . To form all these people into an organization where they might not merely secure a livelihood, but by industry and thrift, have the opportunity to accumulate a competency, such as has been done in this country, is one of the most marvelous feats ever accomplished by human society...