Word: june
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Before taking up the budget of the next fiscal year (1939) in a special message read to Congress last week the President reviewed the budget for fiscal 1938 ending next June. Revising his figures on the current budget for the fourth time since he predicted a "layman's balance" a year ago, President Roosevelt estimated receipts at $6,320,000,000, expenditures at $7,408,000,000. Result: a 1938 net deficit of $1,088,000,000. The change in the past year from an estimated balance to a billion-dollar deficit was caused largely by an overestimate...
...courage of its errors. It pours more ashes in its beard in a year than most other journals do in a generation. Last week the News was at it again. Postmaster General Farley had just announced that the Post Office had lost $46,614,723 in the year ending June 30, 1937. but had it not handled second-class mail (papers & periodicals) for a $89,148,809 loss it would have made...
...futile rebellion. Mareen Delany and May Craig are splendid as a pair of garrulous, short-tempered kind-hearted fishwives, the latter singing "Rule Brittania" throughout the uprising. All these people and several others comprise an intensely interesting gallery of figures, but the play suffers, and compares unfavorably with "June and the Paycock," through having no character of great tragic proportions...
Sean O'Casey's "The Plough and the Stars," to be performed the rest of this week, concludes the engagement of the Abbey Theatre Players in Boston. Strongly resembling "June and the Paycock," it is a still grimmer indictment of war, a more tragic display of how human values are broken and lost when men die for a cause. The setting is the Easter uprising of 1916. It is again a woman who tries to salvage something from the torrent of destruction, but this time she falls and ends in madness. No one wins anything, in fact, except that...
George Lyman Kittredge '82, Gurney Professor of English Literature, Emeritus, has accepted the invitation of President Ernest Hatch Wilkins of Oberlin College, to deliver the Commencement address there next June, it was announced yesterday, John Edgar Park, President of Wheaton College, will give the Baccalaureate Sermon at the exercises...