Word: tight
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...takes a street car. He does not own dress clothes, has never been to a White House function. Social intercourse outside his family interests him not at all. He does not drink or smoke, but does not care if others do. He has a reputation of being tight with his money, but last spring he privately disbursed $500 in small gifts to needy folks back home. He takes pestering by newshawks good-naturedly, avoids conferences with men of finance and industry, of which he knows or cares to know nothing, but will talk for hours to any farmer or farm...
Because spring frost delayed and summer drought blighted the German potato crop the blockade had to be relaxed in July to admit Italian, Dutch and Belgian potatoes, but it was jerked tight last week. German importers groaned as they were cut down for August 1934 to a quota of only 5% of their average monthly imports for 1931. Meanwhile the textile industry factories were put under pressure to weave artificial fibres into their cloth by an order from the Tsar forcing factories which do not use such substitutes to cut their production hours from 48 to 36 per week. Since...
Next morning the General's outburst gave Secretary of State Hull an uncomfortable half hour. Herr Rudolf Leitner, German Chargé D'Affaires, acting for Ambassador Luther who is at home in Nazi-land, called to make a vigorous protest. Mr. Hull was in a tight place. He could not admit that a U. S. Government official had said such things without offering Germany an open diplomatic insult. Nor could he give Germany customary satisfaction, by dismissing the New Deal's Samson. So he drew himself up and with the best grace possible, took refuge in the quibble which General Johnson...
...Schmitt is well known to favor devaluation of the German mark by 20%. The staggering powers slipped into his hands last week resemble those granted by the U. S. Congress to Franklin Roosevelt, some of which the President has of course not used. Tight-lipped Tsar Schmitt gave no sign of how he may use his powers, but Adolf Hitler was seen to have created a nearly perfect engine of economic despotism. Thus far in economics he has been largely windbag. From now on German Big Industry-the Thyssens, Krupps, Siemenses and their ilk-are in a position to receive...
...Pecora did not join his colleagues to start business. Every few minutes Mr. Landis would step out, glowering darkly, hurry down to the other office to whisper a few words, hurry back to Mr. Pecora. At 3:30 he summoned Mr. Kennedy into his office, slammed all windows tight against newshawks' eavesdropping. For over an hour Commissioners Landis, Pecora and Kennedy argued loudly...