Word: deficits
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...present indications the Treasury will break a little better than even in the fiscal year (1926) ending next June, but that in the following fiscal year (1927) the appropriations already made are $21,000,000 in excess of prospective revenue, and if business should have a set back the deficit would be even greater...
...against further appropriations, the President after consideration finally signed the bill increasing pensions of disabled Spanish War veterans from $20 to $50, graduated according to age. He said the Spanish veterans were certainly entitled to that, considering what other veterans are getting, but that it would increase the expected deficit for 1926-27 from $21,000,000 to $40,000,000. He issued an ominous message announcing his approval of the bill...
Totals. Mr. Churchill estimated that the government would have to spend some £812,000,000. He calculated on raising revenues that would yield a surplus of about £4,000,000. But the coal subsidy if figured in with the expenditures instantly turns this surplus into a deficit...
...From the additional taxes voted during the Dou-mer régime, M. Péret figured that he might derive 1,600,000,000 francs. He estimated that by still further drastic governmental economies he could save 500,000,000 francs. There remained a deficit variously estimated at between 3 and 4 billion francs. To meet it, M. Péret proposed to the Chamber Finance Commission...
Harvard must have unrestricted funds first to improve teachers' salaries, as Dean Moore has said, "all along the line." Harvard is again faced with the problem of underpayment and with a new moral deficit each year which is met only by the self-sacrifice and denial of the underpaid teacher. Harvard's staff of younger teachers is its great reserve. It must have at all times only the best men, regardless of the cost. The greatest emphasis must be placed on the quality of teaching and research. If this is clearly recognized, and the means are provided, Harvard's place...