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Budget Problems
The Halls of Ivy · 1952 · 27 min · 4,133 words
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Holes of Ivy starring Mr. and Mrs. Ronald Coleman. This is Ronald Coleman. Inviting you to join us again on the campus of Ivy College.
That's a wrong one. Welcome again to Ivy. Ivy College, that is, in the town of Ivy, USA. When the endowments lag behind, boards of governors are quite justified in trimming their sales to the prevailing financial zippers, which is what Ivy's governing board did at a budget meeting last night.
As a result of which Dr. William Toddhunter Hall, President of Ivy, has come down to breakfast and what for him is a black mood. As he says to his beautiful wife Victoria who has a community property approach to her husband's moods. I'd like another cup of coffee please Victoria. It might possibly serve
to take the taste of last evening's fiasco out of my mind. I'm not against the economy mind you but Penny Pinching gets us nothing but bruised fingers. I'm sorry I was asleep when you got home last night. I take it the budget meeting didn't go your way. Went Mr. Wellman's way for the most part. And Mr. Wellman, however
charitable he may be, is a private citizen, is as German of the Board of Governors a veritable miser. I'd be curious to know how his manicurist could work on such a tight-fisted customer. The cream please, my love. Yes, here you are, sugar.
Sugar, syrup, saccharine, anything. I craved sweetness this morning. What did our The last pin-thrift Clarence do is watch dog as a treasury. Bite the mailman. Oh, Clarence, in a fit of obstinacy and parsimony. Spear headed and moved to cut $2,000 from the appropriation of a college study.
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