Word: deficits
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...less like going in its life. Therefore last week big-bodied bumbling Mayor O'Brien marched into Tammany Hall, got his orders, marched out again confidently to announce: "I am a candidate for re-election." A few days later, when the city's finances were audited, a deficit of $162.000.000 was revealed...
...Army was ready to let out 5,000 civilian arsenal employes. Charlotte, Denver, Des Moines, El Paso, Galveston, Indianapolis. Milwaukee, Mobile, Salt Lake City and Wilmington lost Department of Commerce district trade offices. Behind all this general shakedown in Government service lay these cold facts: ¶ The 1933 budget deficit was $1,786,000,000 (receipts: $2,080,000,000; expenditures: $3,866,000,000). The 1932 deficit: $2,885,000,000. The 1931 deficit: $903,000,000. ¶ President Roosevelt proposes to reduce "ordinary" 1934 expenses to about $2,600,000,000 at which point he hopes they will...
...Messieurs," said he. "France has a budget. It is not the best budget in the world, with a deficit of over 3,500,000,000 francs [$163,450,000] among other weaknesses, but it is the best budget that anyone has a right to expect in these critical times...
Thus ended a seven-month battle which had sent the provisional budget from the Chamber to the Senate and back again nine times and overthrew the brief Government of Joseph Paul-Boncour. French brokers agreed that the long awaited budget might have been worse. High as the deficit is, it has been trimmed 75% from that which an amiable Chamber wished to present to the country in November. Three points that Premier Daladier fought for were gained: a 5% reduction in all Government expenditures except the army & navy *; sending to the committee the inflammatory Socialist proposal...
...budget of 49.000,000,000 francs which the Senate proposed signifies, if it be allowed to stand, a permanent deficit and certain inflation. . . . The hour is approaching when a choice must be made between the Left majority and France...