Word: billing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Stubborn as a Dutch dike, Franklin Roosevelt last week announced he had signed Congress' bill for $725,000,000 to run WPA until June 30, and promptly took emphatic advantage of its invitation to ask for the $150,000,000 it had lopped off, in case an "emergency" loomed. He said in effect that the lopping itself had created an emergency. Then he pictured the abrupt firing of 1,000,000 WPAsters in April, or the scaling-down of 1,500,000 from April to June...
With the ferocity of Hyrcanian tigers, the House of Representatives fell upon the first spending bill submitted by the Administration this year and slashed $150,000,000 (17%) off the deficiency appropriation for WPA (TIME, Jan. 23). Still snarling like the most savage, sabre-toothed Economizers ever heard in the political jungles, House Republicans and anti-Administration Democrats ganged up on the Administration's second appropriation measure-a general Deficiency Bill-and chewed $3,550,000* off the bill's budgeted total of $13,529,000-an impressive saving of 26% which would have been truly sensational...
When the House last week pounced on the Independent Offices bill, carrying $1,668,290,340 as recommended by the Budget Bureau, and from it ripped $21,-797,000 (i%), including $17,392,977 for TVA extension works, the House's lust for economy seemed proved beyond doubt. Only increase voted over Budget proposals was $2,500,000 for FHA's payroll this fiscal year. A significant reduction: salaries of Civil Aeronautics Authority members down to $10,000 from...
...these exhibitions of economy lost their significance when the public learned last week about a quiet little speech made by Secretary of the Treasury Morgenthau to an Appropriations subcommittee in secret session last month. Testifying on the Treasury-Post Office supply bill, Mr. Morgenthau calmly observed that a public debt of $50,000,000,000 was in certain prospect for the U. S., and would by no means strain the nation's financial structure. Shocked protests answered Mr. Morgenthau. But realists on Capitol Hill knew that he was only putting it mildly. They knew that...
Patriotic War veterans made no secret of their hatred of this royal boon, patiently waited for an incident to demonstrate their feelings. Fortnight ago, they found one. One of the Flemish politicians pardoned by the King's bill was Dr. Adrian Martens, a mediocre medical man who had worked for Flemish autonomy. Sentenced to death, Martens escaped to The Netherlands in 1918. The Belgians burned him in effigy. After the passage of the amnesty bill, he returned unobtrusively to take up practice in Ghent. Some time ago, Belgian Premier Paul Henri Spaak proposed Dr. Martens for membership...