Citations:Uncle Scrooge

English citations of Uncle Scrooge

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• 1967, Committee on Post Office and Civil Service, “Federal Pay Legislation: Hearings, Ninetieth Congress, first session”, in parliamentary debates, U.S. Congress, page 282:

  It is an anomaly of our times that an Uncle Sam spending at a rate of some $128 billion yearly should become an Uncle Scrooge in the treatment of government workers!

• 1977, Catalyst, volume 7, number 1, Melanesian Institute for Pastoral & Socio-Economic Service, page 309:

  Most highlands cultists have envisaged cargo coming in limited quantities and to the big man first before distribution (Brunton, Strathern); a variety of smaller coteries throughout Melanesia concentrate on the steady magical multiplication of money and do not count on the sudden appearance of an Uncle Scrooge Money Bin (Morauta, May, etc.).

• 1980, “International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers”, in Journal, volume 79, page 1:

  all knew that with the coming of the New Year the "Uncle Scrooge of the Telephone Industry" (NBTel) would once again be a very formidable opponent.

• 1987, Greil Marcus, Psychotic Reactions and Carburetor Dung, Vintage Books, published 1988, →ISBN, page 75:

  Am I a crank? I feel somewhat like the Uncle Scrooge of pop top journalism; except that twenty-two seems like no age to wear the persona of cantankerous coot so naturally.

• 1992, George W. Beahm, quoting Stephen King, The Stephen King Story, Andrews and McMeel, →ISBN, page 63:

  When Carie was bought by Doubleday, my editor was Bill Thompson, and Doubleday—not known as a truly princely and generous publisher at that time; in fact, they were sort of the Uncle Scrooge of publishing—bought that book for $2500.

• 1998, Dick Gerdes, The Book of Memories, Albuquerque: UNM Press, translation of El libro de los recuerdos by Ana María Shua, →ISBN, page 11:

  When Grandfather Gedalia was young, he was very ostentatious.

  Only after the Crash did he become an Uncle Scrooge.

  Grandfather Dedalia became a miser after his children had grown up.

• 2003, Business Review Weekly: BRW, volume 25, numbers 43–46, Sydney, page 35:

  In retaliation for Groves’ alleged penny-pinching, the LHMU started an “Uncle Scrooge” campaign against him. He says the union handed out pamphlets defaming him to parents at ABC Learning Centres sites.

• 2005, Peter J. Schraeder, United States and Africa: ‘Uncle Sam’ or ‘Uncle Scrooge’?, Jürgen Rüland, quoted in U.S. Foreign Policy Toward the Third World: A Post–Cold War Assessment, page 193:

  Although many complex issues must be considered as part of any healrthy foreign policy debate, one guiding question in particular stands out: Should the United States draw on its idealist-inspired “Uncle Sam” mythology and seek to play a more benevolent proactive role in the African renaissance, or will a continued emphasis on other regions of greater perceived interest, most notably in the post–September 11 era, invariably reinforce a more realist-inspired “Uncle Scrooge” policy in which Africa at best remains neglected by U.S. policy makers?

• 2005, Peter J. Schraeder, United States and Africa: ‘Uncle Sam’ or ‘Uncle Scrooge’?, Jürgen Rüland, quoted in U.S. Foreign Policy Toward the Third World: A Post–Cold War Assessment, page 226:

  Even the best of American intentions, which attempt to draw on America's benevolent Uncle Sam mythology in the active pursuit of facilitating the African renaissance, can be deemed contradictory, inadequate, or, in the extreme, as essentially constituting an Uncle Scrooge policy devoid of either true interest or sincerity.