Word: budgeted
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...first time the 73rd Congress turned Indian-giver on President Roosevelt. Last year, in the first flush of the New Deal, it had delegated to him enormous executive power to purge the veterans' pension roll and readjust government wages as a means of balancing the ordinary budget. Last week, under the lash of two of the most potent lobbies in Washington, it snatched back that power from the White House and returned pension reform to the pork barrel...
...measure, often acclaimed as the Administration's longest single step forward toward governmental reform, authorized the President to reduce the pay of government employes by 15%, to cut veterans' pensions and weed out those who were drawing compensation for injuries not even remotely connected with the War. Budget savings of $625,000,000 were important but more important was the principle of administrative instead of legislative control of pensions and wages...
Year ago Britain had a deficit of ?32,279,000. In announcing his very stiff budget for the year Neville Chamberlain hoped publicly for a surplus of ?1,300,000 but privately was ready to consider himself lucky if the budget balanced. In Scotland last week Chancellor Chamberlain went over the figures carefully to see where he had made his happy mistake...
Scratching over the military expenditures section of France's new budget, editors of a political weekly called La Griffe (The Claw) thought they had uncovered another government scandal last week. The French air force of 2,286 effective planes is magnificently staffed with 23 generals, 38 colonels, 73 lieutenant-colonels. 238 battalion chiefs. Tucked in the budget are orders calling for the creation of 40 more battalion chiefs, setting aside 7,498,000 francs for "leave of absence expenses" for the 23 generals, raising the salary of each member of the Air Council 29,880 francs, and giving...
...genuine conservative who would save the profit system and private ownership of property by adapting them to the technical conditions of the power age," says Tugwell's theory that the Depression was due to psychological rather than to natural causes "is the basis of the New Deal." Budget Director Lewis Douglas, advocatus diaboli in the Administration, "is not a New Dealer at all. . . . As a watchdog of Government expenditure there could be no better man; as a maker of policy there could be no worse. He has long since ceased to enjoy Roosevelt's confidence...