Word: budgeted
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Much? Franklin Roosevelt's reason for including no relief estimates in his budget message last January was that, given a two-months' delay, he could transmit estimates with "far greater knowledge and accuracy." Last week his knowledge and accuracy were still definitely vague to many a Congressman. He pointed out that more than $1,000,000,000 allotted for this year's public works and other projects would not be spent until those projects were completed in fiscal 1937. Next year's regular budget carries about $600,000,000 for various public works and Civilian Conservation...
...cast-off from another department, and the seeker of the "snap" field. Since its origin there has been a great increase in the number of concentrators, but there has been hardly more than a gesture made at increasing its allotment of funds. The double action of expansion within and budget rigidity imposed from without has show up grievous flaws. The need for internal reorganization and outside assistance is as obvious as it is urgent...
Massachusetts taxpayers have left no stone unturned in their exhaustive probe into the mysterious question of what becomes of their money. Their report to the legislative committee on ways and means presents cold facts about several dozen of the 705 items of the state budget, all revealing that funds are being misused to the tune of a grand total of some thirteen million dollars...
...people has indicated that it will no longer stand for such mummery. The lieutenant-governor's office-assistance appropriation was at zero for one hundred and fifty years, but in 1930 possibilities of treasure accruing to this post were discovered, and for 1936 $7100 is requested in the budget. It is suggested in the report that "the legislature may well now seriously consider the desirability of the complete elimination of this unjustifiable budget item...
Major expenses like the state housing board, and bond issues for building programs are wretchedly enough controlled to warrant a general budget-housecleaning; but it is the countless number of petty outlets for corrupt spending that really bleed the taxpayers dry. The cool and straightforward way in which their representatives who drew up the report have ferreted out and condemned these rampant evils, shows that there exists in this state, at least, a strong public determination to clean up a particularly harmful form of graft. Legislators will have to give ear to this growing voice of discontent, for, like William...