Word: fiscales
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...most of the dew, dawn and sunshine had vanished from Detroit. Its dole system under Mayor Murphy had brought the city to the brink of bankruptcy. Jobless relief had cost the city $17,000,000. Because of hard times $11,000,000 in taxes remained unpaid. It closed its fiscal year with a $14,500.000 deficit. Ten percent of the population was out of work. Thirty thousand fam-ilies-132,000 individuals-were being carried on the city's relief rolls at a cost of $1,000,000 per month. Fraud and embezzlement had been found in the dole...
...midst of this exciting activity over international affairs Undersecretary Mills paused briefly last week to wind up the fiscal year of 1931, balance the Treasury's books. And a red year it was for the Government. For the first time since the War, expenditures had, as everyone well knew they would, exceeded receipts, thereby producing a thumping big deficit. Perhaps it was just as well that Secretary Mellon, who had piled up ten annual surpluses in a row, .was away in Paris when the Treasury had to make its dismal accounting to the country. A depression far beyond his darkest...
Undersecretary Mills gathered together his fiscal statistics, added, subtracted, arrived at his totals. He found that the 1931 deficit was $903,000,000. The Government had had to go out and borrow $616,000,000 to keep functioning during the year and this sum was therefore added to the public debt. Every source of revenue had been affected by the drying-up process of hard times whereas expenditures had climbed to a new peacetime record. Mr. Mills's figures produced the following tables...
...House where he served for the next six years he developed a marked flair for fiscal affairs. Possessed of an excellent memory, he absorbed figures quickly, used them shrewdly in debate. As a member of the Ways & Means Committee he became Secretary Mellon's chief advocate in the House, fought many a fierce floor battle for him and his tax plans. But Congressman Mills, for all his knowledge and dexterity with figures, had a manner that got him into ill favor with his colleagues, antagonized those with whom he had to work. He treated them with intellectual and social contempt...
...Guarantee Fund, a sort of fiscal flying buttress in the Young Plan, was cut out of the negotiations last week by Mr. Hoover, whose State Department announced: "We understand that the French Government now indicates that it can drop this from the discussion." Only a few hours earlier the obligation of France with respect to the Guarantee Fund* had brought the parleys near to a dead...