Word: budgeted
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...could not stop these occurrences, the League of Nations tried. Liberia is a charter member of the League, for it had joined the Allies one day during the War when a British warship anchored off Monrovia. The League found that Liberia, besides having no health service, had no budget, no accounts, no money, that its trouble was, as Lord Cecil put it, "the incompetence of the Government and corruption-but rather more incompetence than corruption." The League offered to send Liberia a Government adviser to set things right. President Barclay proudly declined. The League threatened to expel Liberia, then looked...
...pleas of national defense urged by such jingoes as Senator Hiram Johnson, rest on no secure factual foundation. Most naval strategists recognize that the United States is practically impregnable. Successful Japanese action in the New World is predicated on a naval force of such colossal proportions that no national budget could ever bear...
Minister of Finance: Senator Marcel Régnier of the moderate Left, Budget Reporter since 1933 and a great croaker for economy but not considered to have a topnotch fiscal brain...
...Paris first-class fiscal minds saw no humorous side. The decision of Parliament last week was for deflation, sound money-and to achieve these in rock-ribbed surety Premier Laval must subject France to a terrific test of budget paring, drastic economy and supreme reliance on the ultimate ability of the Capitalist system under democracy to bring back not boom prosperity-France has never had that-but tolerable times. The budgetary deficit stood at at least 10 billion francs or $660,000,000. Under the new emergency-powers law Premier Laval, assuming that Parliament shortly adjourns for the summer...
...months Taximan Hertz lopped $39,000,000 from the Paramount budget-$6,000,000 in salaries alone. He wangled reductions in rentals and interest, ordered executives to file expense vouchers-a startling innovation-and marched through the payroll with a big blue pencil. In the film industry, which is notorious for its nepotism, such Hertzian tactics were bound to stir up trouble. And having made enemies right & left, Mr. Hertz finally called for a showdown on his right to hire & fire. He lost. So horsy John Hertz retired to his polo and his racing. Early in 1933, unable...