Word: thrifts
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Robert Wagner became an eager, active member. To get an education he took on any and all odd jobs, while his own father contributed from a janitor's small wages and an Uncle August walked to work to add carfare savings to the boy's future. Such thrift and industry put Robert Wagner through the City College of New York, and seven years later Tammany Hall sent him to the state assembly. Within four years he was a rising Tammany star in the state senate...
...funeral the Rockefellers gathered, J.D.R. Jr. and five handsome young men wearing identical Homburg hats and an identical stamp. J.D.R. Jr. was bringing the next generation along, teaching them about thrift and the Bible-but letting them play tennis on Sundays. The brothers took their places in the philanthropies, but developed interests of their own-John III, shy like his father, is an authority on Japan; Nelson, husky, aggressive and the most public-minded, was adviser to Roosevelt on Latin America, until recently Eisenhower's Under Secretary of Health, Education and Welfare and foreign-policy adviser; Laurance...
...heels of the hard sell spieler comes the shaggy dog who converses with Friend Joe on the merits of rum, and the shaggy Schweppesman who will drink anything plus tonic. Kangaroos sell airline tickets; giraffes promote Ethyl; Mr. Magoo plugs beer. Banks are using cartoons to encourage thrift. The low-key sell is not in itself new on the U.S. scene, e.g., JellO, Campbell's Soup and Coca-Cola have gentled readers for decades. But more and more advertisers are taking the position that an ounce of charm can be worth a pound of pressure...
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...
...Finance Minister since 1949, Schäffer's policy of hard money and high incentives were largely responsible for German recovery. Some U.S. officials grinned when he bought cigarettes one at a time as an example of thrift, decreed the amount to be spent on wreaths for colleagues' funerals, or turned up at the wedding of Chancellor Adenauer's daughter with a bouquet of exactly six carnations costing 14? apiece. Wish there were more like him in other countries, they said. But others, negotiating with him on occupation matters, acquired a distrust for his evasive tactics...