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...monster appropriation hopelessly unbalanced the budget. So it would have if President Roosevelt had met it out of ordinary treasury receipts. But he is to borrow the $3,300,000,000 from the U. S. public and put it aside in a special emergency budget. Though such borrowing may pile up the Public Debt to an all-time high, the regular budget will be unaffected. Many a financial commentator considered this a deceptive if not dishonest form of Federal bookkeeping; many another thought it the only sane thing...
...mere woman (who has made her small pile) add a further word...
...four years in the Kansas penitentiary had been spent in solitary confinement. He and Harvey Bailey-leader of the $2,000,000 Lincoln (Neb.) Bank & Trust Co. holdup in 1930, who was finally caught while golfing in Kansas City-directed what happened next. They threatened to kill the warden, "pile up the guards in heaps," unless they and nine companions were allowed freedom. Warden Prather, choking in his noose, led the party of eleven desperadoes, all armed, to Post No. 3 in the rough stone wall...
...waged, when steamships sink, thick crowds jam the sidewalks of Washington's Pennsylvania Avenue at E Street to read the bulletins in the Washington Post's windows. A straw-hatted crowd jammed the sidewalk one day last week, surged up the front stairs of the grey stone pile, but not to read bulletins. The crowd was there to see the 56-year-old newspaper auctioned (TIME...
That much about the Morgan business has always been known to the world. And like the first dazzling effect of a great pile like St. Peter's, that remains the essential fact. But details? Just what did the firm do every day? How did they do it? How much money did they make...