Word: deficit
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...careful, ready to take no definite stand except on economy, he cannot be tagged as isolationist, or Old Guard. As Governor he has not been forced to take a positive position on national or international affairs. In his first year as Governor (1939) he turned a $40,000,000 deficit into a $3,000,000 surplus by airtight squeezing of the State treasury, and at the expense of cities, school districts, public relief. When a relief crisis developed late that year, many a liberal complained about letting Ohio's unemployed go hungry. Bricker answered that the question...
...Roman Catholics are still well below their quota. Some bishops are short of secular clergy and so are not assigning enough priests for Army work. To ease the shortage, monks are being used. But Catholics have 200 applications on hand, expect to make up their deficit by Christmas. > There is a desperate shortage of Negro chaplains. The Army needs 70 as soon as it can get them, can use many more...
...till now the regulations provided that a student could only take his generals without completing his course if his deficit was no more than one course. The Plan A tutorial requirement of the new arrangement will include all men in Economics, English, Classics, and German, and many in such fields as Government and Biology...
After losing his two game lead and the second set 6-4, Daniels rallied from a 5-1 deficit in the third set and almost deuced the match. But Jenkins finally...
...should be postponed. For the taxes had not only frozen capital markets, they had also killed the goose that laid the golden egg: Federal revenues from capital-gains taxes dropped from $576,000,000 in 1928 to $13,000,000 in 1940 and to zero-or perhaps an actual deficit-last year...