Word: ledger
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Undoubtedly the execution of the pledges of the campaign managers is fraught with difficulty. National budgets have assumed proportions which, in a sense, defy accuracy: local aid must frequently elude the party ledger; while human fallacy is an ever-present factor. The existing is still far removed from perfection, but if the two National Committees approve, even under the constraint of public opinion, something of a step has been taken in the financial purification of campaigns...
...Ward Beam, "originator and director of the Ocean City beach classes," in the Philadelphia Evening Public Ledger...
Author Warshow's book is a faithful ledger of the men and properties Jay Gould bought, and those he sold. It achieves a triumphant balance. It is a record of almost unbroken success. A vast speculator, Jay Gould consistently preserved and increased his fortune, died the richest man of his time. Even a measure of happiness was not denied him. From his last sickbed he could look out at his beloved orchids (8,000) and azaleas (2,000). A devoted family watched over him. And if his stocks soared in relief when his sinister influence finally passed from Wall...
...more humbly, he might have been content to watch, listen, report. Reportorial newspaper labels: Observer, Recorder, Review, Eye, Optic, Chronicle, Argus, Register, Messenger, Gazette, Herald, Telegram, Journal, Expositor, Reporter, Truth, Echo, Outlook, Spectator, Ledger, Bulletin, Mirror, News, Press...
...Mellon issued his report on fiscal* 1928. Meantime, Brigadier-General Herbert Mayhew Lord, Director of the Budget, worked away at plans for fiscal 1929 preparatory to laying them before President Coolidge at Brule next month. Secretary Mellon began by talking about the biggest figures of all on the national ledger-the national debt. It had been reduced by $907,000,000, bringing it down to $17,604,000,000. The average rate of interest paid upon it had been reduced during the year from 3.96% to 3.87%, a saving of $55,000,000. Secretary Mellon had predicted that the surplus...