Word: deficits
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...budget showing a deficit of $12,400 billion marks was adopted by the Reichstag. This is terrible on the face of it, but in real money it is only about 12 million dollars...
...since only four need be passed) than if they had taken only four. Furthermore, a loophole may be left them: if at mid-years it is evident that their program is too heavy, they can be allowed to drop one course and concentrate on the four, making up the deficit later as under the present plan, but in any case before Senior year...
...movement to make New York the seat of the 1924 Democratic National Convention is meeting with strong opposition from Cleveland and San Francisco. It seems to be a matter of money, principally. The Democratic National Committee has a deficit of $176,000-legacy of the terrible 1920 campaign. New York is said to have offered the committee a bonus of $500,000. San Francisco has put up $250,000 as inducement. It is not known what offer Cleveland has made; but the Mayor of Cleveland has publicly declared that he considers Cleveland the only possible place in which a Convention...
Similarly, since he is not a majority stockholder, he does not work with the church; although if he did we would have " ecclesiastical conventions meeting annually to devise ways and means for using a surplus" instead of covering a deficit...
...seemed in a fair way to take the remaining distance by storm. With the right to race Yale at stake, the Sophomores rallied sharply and with half a mile to go raised the count to the neighborhood of 34 and buckled grimly to the task of making up the deficit. And they nearly succeeded in doing it, for the prow of the Senior shell cut the line barely 8 feet in front--a rather tight finish to say the least. Sophomore B came along a quarter length astern...