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...Federal Government has spent $2,464,315,131, has taken in only $1,440,193,463. Of its expenditures, $1,425,424,842 was devoted to routine running costs-37% less than for the same period last year. These costs were covered, with $14,768,621 to boot, by regular revenues. Emergency loans and relief projects thus accounted for the entire deficit. When Mr. Morgenthau's clerks added them up and subtracted the small surplus, President Roosevelt was informed that his deficit was precisely $1,024,121,667 of which the chief items were...
...crack Italian liner Conte di Savoia neared Naples, bearing roly-poly Comrade Maxim Maximovich Litvinoff from his triumph in Washington, the Italian Press burst with significant unanimity into a "tune" evidently called by Benito Mussolini. From the toe of the Italian boot to its strap among the Alps, Italians read that "Japanese dumping has become a new Oriental peril...
...night of Repeal, now many months heralded by brassy clarion sounds and the low moans of boot-leggers, is the finish of a flaming column in the scroll of American delusion. Presumably, it ushers in a day of betterment: there will come the fall of the beer baron and rum runner; the stomachal conditions of the ailing members of every University in the country will be improved; revenue will come to the government, and wine to the table; and finally, the course of a few generations may see the people of the nation taught to appreciate fine liquors...
...address before the Conference of Catholic Charities (see p. 13). At his town house he received General Hugh Samuel Johnson, just out of the hospital where he had been nursing a painful boil. For him President Roosevelt signed 17 NRA codes, most important of which were those for banks, boot & shoe manufacturers, retail lumber dealers, retail automobile dealers...
...seduce us. The administration, in reviving production and purchasing power, has a difficult hand to play, and ought not to be reaching up its sleeve for the jokers; certainly cutting the market and enlarging the productive units at one time is a joker, and a lugubrious one to boot...