Word: ledger
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...spending side of the ledger, national defense, to which $41 billion (almost the same as in fiscal 1960) was allotted, would as always claim the hugest chunk of federal money-and again, as always, was likely to be the most hotly debated part of the budget (see below...
...while it looked as if Cornish was the man; a year ago, Publisher Whitney put him in charge. But within months, without advising Cornish, Whitney reached out to Mexico, Mo. to bring in Robert M. White II, 44, publisher of the Mexico Ledger, as editor and president of the Herald Tribune. Said newly appointed Editor White: "George didn't know I was coming until just before I came." When Cornish heard of it, he submitted his resignation, conscientiously volunteered to stay on until Whitney found a successor...