Word: ledgerdemain
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...programs, from medicare to urban rebuilding. The Johnson budget is controversial because there is a widespread feeling that the uncertainties of the war in Viet Nam have made it even more tentative and inexact than budgets customarily are-and that the President has had to use every trick of ledgerdemain to hold down the deficit to $1.8 billion. Budget Director Charles Schultze defends his handiwork as "a highly responsible budget," but criticism, like the budget itself, seems to keep on growing. Says Joseph D. Ardleigh, executive vice president of the Research Institute of America: "The budget counts on savings that...
...Hjalmar Schacht, German master of ledgerdemain, ousted from the Reichsbank presidency in January to make way for Nazi inflationists, embarked on a world-circling vacation trip. Last week he arrived in Bombay, India, tush-tushed reports that he had come to barter for Indian cotton. Surprisingly unsanguine, he said of Britain's stop-Hitler alliances: "We will do our best when the time comes. . . . We will give them a good fight...
...Phillips Brooks House Association, will deliver a short address of welcome. Selections on the piano by K. P. Smerage '21 will follow. Reading and recitation by Colonel George Lyon 3G. intervene before Miss Edith Rogers will sing. The bulk of the entertainment will be provided by the magic and ledgerdemain tricks offered by R. B. Farrar...
...Entertainment Troupes committee of the Social Service committee has sent circulars giving particulars about applications for entertainments, etc., to over 100 hospitals and charitable institutions about Boston. The entertainments, under the auspices of the Committee, will begin next week, and will consist of music, lectures, reading and ledgerdemain. As usual, no admission fee will be allowed. There will be an average of about three entertainments a week until May 10, but no entertainments will be given on Saturday evenings...