Word: pocketbooks
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...defection of those hwo would not compete unless their athletic clubs reimbursed them for lost wages, would be more than overcome by the satisfaction of the amateurs in that they had given up something purely pecuniary for something more profitable. In other words, the replenishing of ones pocketbook was not as important as the satisfaction of one's ideals...
...Socialist weekly, The American Appeal was announced for Jan. 1, 1926, under the editorship of Mr. Debs. The publishers of the Jewish Daily Forward would, it was said, donate $15,000. A gift of $500 had already been received from the International Neckwear Workers and the International Pocketbook Workers. A drive would begin at once for 100,000 yearly subscriptions...
Wherever the name of popular writing is given, Mr. Wright stands as a symbol. From what some folk write of him, you would see him as a violent newspaper man sitting at his typewriter, spinning out stories to catch the popular mind and fill his own pocketbook. Long before one meets him, one is sure that he is nothing of the sort. Reading his novels is enough to convince any thinking person of his sincerity. Then, too, how could a man born in Rome, N.Y., who has been both landscape-gardener and preacher, be totally lacking in sincerity...
...recent Mexican revolution. New York, to his mind, controls Mexico, as it does the rest of Pan America. It maintains this control in spite of the recent passage by the Mexican congress of a law which directs practically 40 per cent of all oil to the reservoir and the pocketbook of the Mexican government. Oil determines all American intercourse with Mexico...
...thief whom I knew rather well expressed this viewpoint in the following way. 'I get soaked for stealing a pocketbook; why doesn't a banker get punished for stealing a railroad...