Word: deficits
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Michigan's Governor-elect Frank Murphy, a flight to the Philippines. Massachusetts' Senator-elect Henry Cabot Lodge Jr., to Bermuda. Democratic Boss James Aloysius Farley, to Ireland. National Republican Chairman John Daniel Miller Hamilton, to Manhattan, to worry about an estimated $1,300,000 party deficit. Vice President John Nance Garner, in Uvalde, Tex., stayed put, as did Senator William Edgar Borah, in Boise, Idaho, after narrowly escaping pneumonia. Governor Alf Landon, duckhunting. New Jersey's Senator-elect William Henry Smathers, hunting in Berwick, Pa., barely missed being shot by his secretary. Secretary of the Treasury Henry...
Republican National Committee were reported at $5,038,419; expenditures at $4,949,428. This, however, did not tell the whole story. Republicans were making desperate appeals for funds because their receipts had fallen off so badly that they feared that they would have a $2,000,000 deficit by the time all the bills for the campaign were in. Democrats said the reason the Republican well had gone dry was that businessmen did not want to waste money on a lost cause. GOPartisans blamed their cash shortage on fear of Congressional investigation, income tax assessments and other reprisals from...
Under the New Deal, the dollar has been devalued and a huge government deficit piled up. The stage has been set for an increase in the cost of living which will bring great hardship, especially to those whom Mr. Roosevelt professes to be most desirous of helping. Public and private debts contributed greatly to the severity of, the last depression. The new government debt, accumulated in part for the avowed purpose of preventing business depressions in the future, actually is likely to be a chief cause of the next economic collapse...
...conserving his beloved wild life, has pounded tirelessly at the New Deal spending on other projects. He has shown Harry Hopkins making the electorate sit up and bark for WPA grants, Franklin Roosevelt as a Roman emperor tossing a puny taxpayer to a gladiator labeled Eleven Billion Dollar Deficit...
...McDonald '39, representing the Crimson were opposed by J. W. Hathaway and C. G. Beckel of Hanover. Sullivan supported Roosevelt as a representative of the needed Liberalism in Government, while McDonald upheld the financial policy of the present administration, contending that worthwhile ends had been achieved by increasing the deficit...