Word: ledger
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...miserable balance due me on my adjusted compensation certificate [$275] . . . Why have you not had the honesty to conscript the massed and hoarded money of the country and put it to work?" He killed himself with gas. Amid such circumstances the U. S. Government last week closed its 1933 ledger. It began a new fiscal year in which President Roosevelt was determined to break the Treasury jinx of a fantastically unbalanced budget even if he also broke hearts & homes. A balanced budget, he thought, will break fewer hearts than have been broken by the unbalanced budget of the last three...
...Morgan & Co.'s plump, bespectacled office manager, Leonard A. Keyes, climbs on the stand with a big leather-backed ledger in his arms. From it he reads the story of how Banker Mitchell's $30,000,000 fortune was wiped out. On a wild stockmarket day in October 1929, Mr. Mitchell turned to the House of Morgan for a $12,000,000 loan to support the market for National City Bank stock. By the spring of 1930 the loan had been cut to $6,000,000 but the stockmarket had hardly begun its great decline. Thereafter every...
...Public Ledgers and Inquirer owned by old Cyrus Hermann Kotzschmar Curtis. Against them is the Record, lusty bratling of Publisher Julius David Stern. They fight editorially-liberal, hard-hitting Record v. high Tory Public Ledgers and Inquirer. They fight for circulation-with the Record (149,000) now well ahead of the morning Public Ledger (105,000) and creeping up on the Inquirer, which still has an ample lead (232,000). Fiercest of all is the fight for advertising, in which the Record has beaten the Public Ledger, is worrying the Inquirer...
...just written a book on "The Constitutional Development of the League of Nations." He has formerly been the director of the Geneva office of the League of Nations Association, lecturer on current political problems, and a member of the Washington staff of the United Press, Baltimore Sun, and Philadelphia Ledger...
...meantime the journal had disappeared. Apparently the whole trouble was the result of the carelessness of Hancock's coachman, who was told to bring six books, and forgot exactly half of them. The missing ledger lay in the Hancock stable from 1776 until 1863, when the building was torn down. Mr. C. L. Hancock, of the class of 1829, found the book and turned it over to the College Library on April...