Word: deficits
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...California and Oregon, Vice President Nixon planned to campaign right up to Election Day. Ike will make October campaign speeches in Los Angeles, San Francisco and Chicago, probably followed by appearances in New York, Pennsylvania and Massachusetts. The President, said White House aides, would bear down hardest on Democratic deficit spending, on the failure of the Democratic Congress to pass a labor bill last session, and on the continuing recovery in the national economy...
...office, Docking staked his political fortune on a "soak-industry" budget that he knew all along the Republican-controlled legislature would tear to shreds. When the legislature did-and also overrode Docking's veto of a sales tax increase to make up a predicted $15 million deficit-Docking emerged, in some minds at least, as the little taxpayer's frustrated friend. But Republicans are making hay with the fact that the ill-smelling Teamsters plopped $3,500 into his 1956 campaign hopper-a fact which Docking first clumsily denied and then admitted. And in crucial Sedgwick County...
...members of this group purchased the Brattle Theatre from the Cambridge Social Union and staged its subsequent productions there. Upon graduation, they formed the Brattle Theatre Company, a professional repertory group that achieved national renown. Unfortunately, it was forced to disband in 1952 owing to an accumulated $35,000 deficit...
Another bright spot in the varsity's attack was quarterback Charlie Ravenel, also a sophomore, who gave the backfield a spark and precision it hadn't shown before when he entered the game in the last period. With the ball on the Crimson eight and a three-point deficit to fight, Ravenel began a long drive that carried to the Buffalo 20. Not long afterwards, Pete Briggs recovered a fumble on the 29, and with five minutes to go Ravenel again took charge...
...because, in trying to control the new inflation it fears, the FRB is up against a big problem it did not have before. The FRB will have to keep credit easy enough so that the Treasury can raise $10 billion to $12 billion to finance the biggest postwar deficit, and do that at a time when the Government bond market is the weakest in years...