Word: thrifting
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...true Democrat to wrath to realize that the process of making modish shirtwaists for $1.69 is exclusively a Republican secret. One suspects that the criticism is motivated as much by the fact that Mrs. Coolidge withheld the details as to pattern and material as by the advertising of her thrift. Were the Democratic women truly wise, they would immediately closed themselves in conference with Mr. Snippean. What consternation in Republican ranks if Democrats (feminine) were to appear at political rallies garbed in shirt-waists of their own creation at a cost...
...Agriculture is not asking for alms. The farmers are not seeking information as to how to farm, nor are they suffering on account of their own extravagance or lack of thrift. What they want is the handicaps and the hobbles which have been placed on them by the Republican Administration removed. They were seeking demands similar to those of labor- sufficient price for their products to enable them to live at American standards with a margin...
...There is another thing this League should do in the future and in larger measure than we have in the past - emphasize the importance of thrift to our people, young and old. The Negro race constitutes one-tenth of the population of the United States. In 1921, Negroes spent for luxuries alone these sums: For cigars, cigarettes and tobacco, $22,000,000; perfumery and cosmetics, $15,000,000; toilet soaps, etc., $14,800,000; chewing gum, $3,500,000; pianos, organs, phonographs and other musical instruments, $46,000,000; sporting goods, cameras, firearms, electric fans, photographs and pictures, at least...
While the National Negro Business League sought to teach Negroes thrift at its session in Chicago, in Manhattan, Marcus Garvey and his associates (TIME, Aug. 11) made Negroes "noble." A procession marched into Liberty Hall, which was formerly a garage. First came a beadle, then an archdeacon, then a priest in red biretta, then Bishop McGuire of Africa in a purple cape and mitre of gold cloth, carrying a crook and wearing his bishop's ring of amethyst over a pair of white gloves. At the rear came Marcus Garvey in a feathered hat and George O. Marke, Royal...
...first year, Prudential's income amounted to only $1,555. In 1851 Henry Harben, its famed Secretary, entered the Company. Harben practically created the modern insurance business of Europe by preaching popular thrift through insurance, and raising the ethical standards of the business. So rapidly did the Company's income mount in the 60's that it was once attacked in Parliament by Gladstone. Harben showed that the Prime Minister was mistaken, and the latter was forced to retract. Harben also inaugurated scientific industrial insurance, and was the first to gather actual statistics regarding health and deaths...