pinchfist

He still remembers too well his first job at $2 a week, the pinchfist thrift he learned when he had to note down in a little black book every penny he spent.

Off popped a face-to-face verbal brawl between Virginia's pinchfist Harry Byrd, hot opponent of pensions, and Wyoming's Joseph O'Mahoney, who stressed the fact that he had been "absent" when the bill passed.

No. 1 New Deal pinchfist is Harold Le Clair Ickes, Secretary of the Interior, known to one & all as a very tough man with a dollar.

Added to the usual list of farmer-fattening measures, these last week clearly demonstrated Congressional scorn for any policy of peeling-paring, pinchfist economy.

He does not do this because he is a pinchfist or is reluctant to win the war, but because he is a man of solid sense, who was raised to respect plain arithmetic.