pinchfist

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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.

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In the Senate, silent acquiescence had been spoiled by the noisy opposition of Virginia's veteran pinchfist, Harry F. Byrd.

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But Playwright Roosevelt added a curtain-raiser to Act I, in which he himself appeared in a new role�that of a penny-squeezing pinchfist.

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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.

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

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