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...added to the deficit, although it increased the public debt. Thus the President might have ignored the $3,970,000,000 RFC outlay of 1934, might have announced a deficit not of $7,309,000,000 but of $3,339,000,000. Then he might have told Congress in sober truth: "Last summer we planned to run into debt for $3,300,000,000 of emergency expenditures. We expect to exceed this amount by only $39,000,000. For fiscal 1935 our budget, including all emergency expenditures now foreseen, is estimated to balance with a surplus...
...broader and deeper than his manner would indicate. "Tender is the Night" gives the uneasy impression of being a potboiler as Compton MacKenzie's Italian and detective stories give it; for just as Mr. MacKenzie cannot keep out of his froth, phrased as froth, some of his more sober merit, Mr. Fitzgerald gives us disturbing glimpses of a kind of writing different from any that he has ever done. Mr. MacKenzie does the other kind, often; perhaps Mr. Fitzgerald will do it some day, also...
...should have been a sober impressive moment when the first constitutionally elected Cortes since the Second Republic assembled in Madrid last week and took their seats in the Congreso de los Diputados. But nobody had time to pay any attention to them for all hell was breaking loose in Madrid, Badajoz, Valencia, Murcia, Granada, Teruel and the north...
...nourishing a grudge as the result of disappointed ambitions. Mr. Smith is permitting his resentment against the Administration to run away with his judgment. He is apparently under the illusion that the coining of sarcastic phrases and the hurling of epithets will be misunderstood by sober-minded citizens for sound reasoning. The Civil Works Administration was a logical development of the public works program. It was designed to take up the slack in employment that the Public Works Administration could not hope to reach...
...directly on a matter of this sort; for in the past it has been the custom to hand over such rulings tacitly to underlings, to have them unobtrusively enforced, to make them "generally understood." But the prohibition itself is in the best of University Hall form. It is conservative, sober, and unexplained. To obviate confusion, the President has ruled that no undergraduate may bring liquor into the dining halls. That is all, and for officialdom, that is enough...