Word: deficits
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...balance the French budget which should have been balanced by Jan. 1. Since the Socialists wrecked the last Cabinet rather than vote enough new taxes and economies to restore fiscal equilibrium, the only course open last week seemed to be to juggle figures so that the French deficit could be called smaller than it actually is: 10½ billion francs...
...Bonnet served France as Chief of Demobilization, has written stacks of books on the most varied subjects: The Soul of a Soldier; Philosophy of Law; The Finances of France; Letters to a Bourgeois of 1914. Last week M. Bonnet proposed to juggle some four billion francs out of the deficit by suspending during the crisis amortization of the national sinking fund and by transferring the deficits of the French State Railways from the budget to a special account which he hopes to cover by upping taxes on gasoline and motor vehicles-Socialists having no sympathy for motorists...
...Neither interest in Soprano Leider nor Baritone Tibbett's success in Emperor Jones (TIME, Jan. 16) has been enough to keep the Metropolitan out of the financial plight in which it found itself last spring. Despite reduced salaries and a shortened season a $400,000 deficit had directors wondering last week whether to disband or attempt drastic reorganization. Most credible rumor: a twelve weeks' season in New York might be combined with visits to other cities which would be called upon for backing. Louis Eckstein, Ravinia's patron and newest of the Metropolitan's directors, would...
...concerning the recent Pudding Club book, "The Illustrated History of the Hasty Pudding Theatre," including a directory of its members, J. T. Dennison '34, one of the officers of the club, stated last night that the sale of the publications was more than realizing the cost, and that the deficit incurred last year is fast being recompensed...
Other 1932 reports included: 000's omitted D=Deficit...