Word: thrifts
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Throughout the Administration the budget uproar came to be called "the Humphrey flap." Typical remark at Cabinet meetings: "George, you see what you cost me in the House this week?" The most outspoken of Humphrey's Cabinet critics was Commerce Secretary Sinclair Weeks, whose New England sense of thrift is every bit as sharp as that of Midwesterner Humphrey...
...buyers must also be praised, however, for their enterprise and thrift. Not everyone would go out to Chicago at the last minute that way just for the sake of a bunch of out-at-heels students. There is no way of telling how much more corned beef and cabbage can be served because of the buyers' waiting until the meat could be condemned. We only wish that more money could be saved. Perhaps the buyers might be able to wangle a little of that Cutters-and-Canners', for Sundays and holidays...
...Conflict v. Adjustment. Until a generation or two ago the U.S. lived by what Whyte calls the "Protestant Ethic" of thrift, hard work and competition, but this is gradually being replaced by the "Social Ethic" of security, collective spirit and "scientism." The ideal of healthy conflict is being replaced by the ideal of adjustment. Big organizations in the U.S. have become self-contained welfare states, "citadels of belongingness," to which the new generation pays almost monastic allegiance. "They are the ones of our middle class who have left home, spiritually as well as physically, to take the vows of organization...
...another in close community under a religious code in which even physical uncleanliness is punishable by excommunication. In 1947 some 600 men, women and children of the Sabbath Church went to South Africa to weave baskets and make furniture in Korsten, a suburb of Port Elizabeth. Their industry and thrift led to a prosperous industry...
Perhaps Washington's most valuable contribution was his emphasis on thrift: "The opportunity to earn a dollar in a factory just now is worth infinitely more than the opportunity to spend a dollar in an opera house." While many Negroes, like other Americans, indulge in conspicuous consumption, Washington's advice has been followed by fairly large numbers...