Word: deficits
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Chicagoans groaned again to think they ever re-elected Mayor William Hale (''Big Bill") Thompson. Chicago had had no such deficit since 1917, when the first two years of Thompsonism necessitated a special bond issue. One unprovided item was $56,700 for removing dead animals from Chicago's streets this year. This item is traditional on city budgets, usually as a fat morsel of graft. In the case of gang-ridden Chicago, people interpreted the phrase "dead animals" as a euphemism for something far more grisly than graft...
...days after Chicago's deficit was announced, the Chicago and Cook County tax bills were issued, having been withheld by Thompson henchmen until after the primary election. When they received their tax bills, citizens all over Chicago exploded with fury, and rushed to the City Hall to protest. While the city's deficit was being acquired, city and county taxes had been jacked up tremendously. Some citizens found their taxes raised 100%, some 200%, some...
Ambassador Grew has never minced words in declaring that the continued efficient functioning of the American Hospital is of vital import to the U. S. colonies in Constantinople and in cities of the Balkan and Asiatic hinterlands. Yet the hospital has faced a deficit for the past several years and can scarcely continue functioning through the present twelvemonth if financial aid is not speedily forthcoming from the U. S. Director Dr. Shepard of the Hospital and School has economized and scrimped. The nurses now in training who go out upon graduation to spread U. S. medical methods in Turkey...
...Griest Bill, much hoped-for by publishers and mail-order men, went to the Senate. By some citizens it was viewed with alarm because it would increase the Post Office Department's chronic deficit from...