Word: deficits
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Heflin again stood up in the Senate. He backed up his previous charges with more charges, quoted an old testimony of an Alabama bootlegger: " 'You know Secretary Mellon loaned the Republican National Committee $5,000,000 in 1920. Only $3,000,000 has been repaid. There is a deficit of $2,000,000. Jess Smith was charged with getting that money. The plan was to have the liquor men and the breweries contribute to this fund...
...seamen as does the U. S., and to that extent at least foreign shipping concerns have had an advantage over U. S. competitors. Morgan's International Mercantile Marine has never paid a common dividend; its accumulated, unpaid preferred dividends are 64% of their face value; its yearly deficit has been, since 1923, $2,500,000. So the Morgan dream flits...
...breeding Suffolk Punch horses and Brown Swiss cattle on his stock farm in Libertyville, 111. When the Chicago Opera Company, which long had rested on the weary shoulders of Mr. Harold F. McCormick and his wife, the now Mrs. Rockefeller-McCormick, came to Mr. Insull for salvation, the yearly deficit was a million dollars. Now it is $350,000. Directors predict that Samuel Insull will make it pay. Rarely, when he is in Chicago, does he miss a performance. In the entr'acte he goes behind to encourage the singers and they in turn speak of him as "Papa...
...reason for this step lay in the large deficit that confronted the Student Council after the publication of last year's Register. It was felt, therefore, that the demand did not warrant the risk of similar deficit this year. New measures may be adopted in the future, but the publication will be suspended for this year...
...professional schools preferred to go sometimes to one place and sometimes to another, and especially to cafeterias where the social side of dining is reduced to a minimum. The attendance at Memorial Hall therefore diminished until it became probable that it could not be maintained without a heavy deficit. In the spring of 1924, circulars were sent to a large number of students asking for suggest ons about conducting the hall, and those received which appeared to represent views commonly held were adopted. Nevertheless, the attendance in the following autumn was so small that the service could not be continued...