Word: deficits
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Jones has been known outside of Texas at least since 1917, when he worked with the Red Cross in Washington and Paris. But not until 1924, when he stepped forward to bear the brunt of the $220,000 convention deficit, was his importance widely appreciated. They at once let him have charge of National Democratic finances and then, last week, when the 1928 convention was being noisily auctioned in the Mayflower Hotel at Washington, they let Mr. Jones have his way. He happily produced his own certified check for $200,000 as Houston's bid. It led on all five...
...less than 15,000,000 Britons of the wage earning class are "covered" by ill-health, unemployment, accident, old age, or life insurance imposed or furnished by the State. Each week more than 1,250,000 old age pensions are paid -this in the face of a national budgetary deficit exceeding $830,000,000 for the past twelvemonth...
Erie R.R. With a pang stockholders in the Erie railroad last week learned that the company had incurred a deficit of $201,683 on its November business. They recalled the previous November 1926, when the month's surplus had been $2,248,113 - 11 times the deficit...
...called for a $400,000,000 tax cut. President Pierson said that a referendum of all the Chambers of Commerce had backed their rational executives' program 90% strong. The Chamber was anxious for its tax cut, said President Pierson, even if, combined with big appropriations, it resulted in a deficit. President Coolidge's voice rose and rang bitterly as he called this talk "absurd," especially coming from Business men who apparently were unaware that budget law obliges the Treasury to eschew deficits...
...London, Sir Thomas Beecham, as full of musical energy and notions as his father's factory was of pills, announced last week the foundation of an Imperial League of Opera. His new scheme calls for 120,000 subscriptions of $2.50 annually to provide for an estimated deficit of $300,000; seats for $1.40; a six months' season in London, the rest of the year to be divided among Liverpool, Manchester, Leeds, Birmingham, Edinburgh, Glasgow; the company to be organized from such British singers as John McCormack, Edward Johnson, Alfred Piccaver, Joseph Hislop, Florence Austral and Eva Turner...