Word: deficit
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...have succeeded in reducing the party deficit from $1,550,000 to $800,000, with every indication of a further reduction to under $500.000 within the next fortnight. . . . The party's interest can be advanced best by opening a permanent and adequate headquarters in Washington and the conducting of active organization work 365 days in the year. ... I have appointed Mr. Jouett Shouse, of Kansas City, to be chairman of the executive committee and he will immediately assume charge of the Washington office...
...from a carefully prepared sheet of paper, read Chairman John Jacob Raskob of the Democratic National Committee to a group of astonished newsgatherers. At the disclosure that the Democratic deficit had been almost cut in half in five months, despite the party's crushing defeat, news-trained noses quivered with interest...
...errors as a fiscal forecaster are negligible. At the Capitol, the Treasury's actuary can be and often is made out a worthless prophet. But there is no disputing this fact about Mr. McCoy: if and when his estimates err, it is on the cautious side?over for Deficit, under for Surplus. Perhaps his merry mien is due in some measure to his delight in always finding that the U. S. Government is in better financial condition than he had predicted...
Last July when the 1930 fiscal year began, President Coolidge, on the advice of Budget Director Lord and Treasury Estimator McCoy, warned of a deficit next June of 94 million dollars. Though it was only on paper, it was used in the campaign as an argument by Republicans against a change in administration, by Democrats as a sign of bad stewardship. By October, President Coolidge foresaw an even break between receipts and expenditures. By December, when President Coolidge sent his budget to Congress, he had discovered a timorous little surplus of 37 millions peeping up at him. By March...
...board, partly through public interest in radio television, talking pictures, and similar manifestations of science in the fields of entertainment and communication. Thus Kolster stock boomed. Lately, however, worried by the Federal Reserve Board and its anti-speculation activities, frightened by untrue rumors of a great Kolster deficit, California operators began to sell Kolster short. This bear movement was strengthened by the Kolster report which showed, indeed, no deficit, but small earnings. It should not be concluded, however, that Kolster radios sold poorly in 1928 or that its 1928 earnings are indicative of a bad 1929. During 1928, Kolster showed...