Word: deficits
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...than 37-year-old Phil La Follette of Wisconsin, younger than 38-year-old Olin Johnston of South Carolina. Last week Governor-elect Allred was in Washington trying to find out how much money Texas would have to raise for relief on top of its expected $14,000,000 deficit...
...their trousers as long as possible, French bureaucrats sit on round pieces of leather, are known derisively as les ronds-de-cuir. Cozily last week they closed the books on the French Budget of 1916, obtained the Senate's approval for their final audit which showed a deficit of 22 billion (old style) francs or 110 billion present-day gold francs. When a Senator protested at the ronds-de-cuir delay, Finance Minister Louis Germain-Martin hotly assured him that a mighty reform is under way which will permit all French budgets to be closed by 1937. Almost ready...
...open letter crammed with visionary hopes and aims Stokowski criticized the board for not having made the most of radio. With a good contract, he said, "It should be possible to finish the season without any deficit and it might even be possible to reduce the price of concert tickets...
...surplus' is obtained only by not charging as expenses some $64,000,000. . . . Having performed this unprecedented trick with the figures, Mr. Farley piously says in his report: 'For the first time in 15 years the taxpayers of the country have been relieved of making good a postal deficit...
...Derck, now into the bank for $1,100, was asked to finance two concessions at the Chicago Fair ? a Chinese Show in The Bowery and the Hall of Champions where a stable of broken-down fisticuffers pummeled each other nightly. Both were miserable failures and the Van Derek deficit climbed...