Word: debts
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...raise the legal limit of the U. S. debt from $45,000,000,000, which it is to reach in 16 months, to $50,000,000,000. (The debt on March...
...this was painful enough to Mr. Morgenthau, but doubtless less painful than the discussion of raising the debt limit. Loyal as he is to Franklin Roosevelt, Henry Morgenthau would like by this time to see the end of the Government's perennial deficit and mounting debt. Before the House committee he declared his belief that a $50,000,000,000 debt would be perfectly safe. Before the Senate committee he cited the continued demand for U. S. bonds as proof that the Federal credit has not been undermined. Senator Glass rasped, "You have maneuvered the damn thing to where...
...Government's fiscal picture must be carefully scanned, and that doesn't mean next year, but now-and . . . not through a colored lens. . . . I am opposed, unless exceptional circumstances arise, to increasing by law the present limit of the national debt. The only way . . . is to begin immediately a radical and substantial cut in Government expenditures...
...questioners Pat Harrison specified a 10% overall slash in this year's Federal expenses. Knowing well that fixed charges of some $2,300,000,000 (for debt interest, Social Security, tax refunds, revolving funds and the like) could not be touched to effect such a saving, Pat Harrison snorted: "I know that a lot of this emergency stuff could be cut to hell...
...Testament (Apocrypha) relates that the Angel Raphael led the younger Tobias on a journey to collect a debt owed to blind Tobias the elder. Guided by the Angel, little Tobias returned with, among other things, a fish (see cut) whose gall restored his father's vision...