Word: tightwads
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...author of The Affluent Society, may have at last explained himself. Plainly, his big-spending theories derive from a rebellion against his upbringing. For Galbraith, as he discloses in this amiable, slim volume of reminiscence, hails from a Scottish community in Ontario that seems today to have been a tightwad little island of frugality in a spendthrift continent, a budget balancer's paradise...
...Troubled Tightwad. For all his money, though, Genovese was a tightwad. Fearful that members of his dope ring might cheat him, he mixed into narcotics dealings that he might well have handled by remote control. In 1957 a Genovese dope peddler arrested in Manhattan got sore because the boss failed to come to his rescue with a bail bond and a lawyer. The prisoner got even by spilling the gang's secrets; two years later Genovese and fourteen other hoods were convicted of violating federal narcotics laws. The boss was sentenced to 15 years in prison...
...Switzerland, he pays the Swiss government a flat and fairly nominal yearly sum, and no additional income taxes. He has never lost his penny-conscious regard for money. In fact, although he lives in a country twice as thrifty as Scotland, he is celebrated locally as the biggest tightwad in the canton...