Word: beyond
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Treasury had to borrow because it was living far beyond its means. Last year it piled up a $903,000,000 deficit. On July i it started over again with a clean fiscal slate. Last week the 1932 deficit rolled up during the first two months of the fiscal year amounted to $396,000,000 compared to $240,000,000 for the same period last year. If the July- August rate of spending was maintained, it meant that the Treasury would be more than $2,000,000,000 in the red next June 30. But Treasury actuaries explained that...
...doing his favorite work as the special agent of the Senate Slush Fund Committee. His job was to find out what Bishop Cannon had done with almost $100,000 contributed for Democratic use in Virginia against Alfred Emanuel Smith in the 1928 campaign. The Bishop had juggled his accounts beyond all senatorial comprehension and then successfully defied the Committee's demand for an explanation under the Corrupt Practices Act. What Investigator Manly was principally trying to trace through a jungle of bank trans actions was $65,300 contributed by Edwin Cornell Jameson, New York insurance man (TIME, April...
...struggled loose. Brice was momentarily stunned, said later he was only dimly aware of flinging himself from his plane and jerking open his parachute. Both landed safely. The planes injured no one: Sanderson's landed in a vacant lot, Brice's on the cornice of a public school building, beyond which several children were playing...
...been taken into the secret were worried, but the new Brazilian Government-wealthy conservatives led in this matter by Minister of Finance Jose Maria Whitacker-were true to their U. S. friends. The deal went through, and in it the participants thought they saw significance far beyond the benefits to the Brazilian coffee and U.S. wheat situations: 1) It strengthened the new Brazilian Government, perhaps saved that country's financial structure; 2) it thus saved U. S. investors who hold $401,424,000 of Brazilian bonds...
...question of Reparations was brought up. Yet the spidery signature of Banker Moreau appeared in its due place on the bottom of the report when it was signed. Back in Paris, Banker Moreau was called immediately to confer with government heads, had nothing to say to the Press beyond remarking plaintively...