Word: budgeted
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...tenure system mean the abrupt dismissal of men who are bearing a major burden in their respective departments? Is the transition to the new plan sufficient reason for their unprecedented discharge when they were normally slated for renewals of their appointments? Is this action a continuation of the frozen budget policy said to be responsible for the Walsh-Sweezy fiasco? Has many attention been paid to the Committee's suggestion for a more flexible budget? Will Harvard, by this rude action, lose the reputation for decency which has helped to make it famous...
...more than $1,000,000 from University of Wisconsin's budget, told University President Clarence A. Dykstra at a budget hearing: "Something is smoldering somewhere and I want to clean it up. I want to get rid of this cancerous growth or kill the patient...
...cutting expenditures: "I sit in my office with a business man who thinks the surest way to produce customers is to balance the Federal budget at once. I say to him-'How?' Sometimes he says-'How should I know? That is your job.' Sometimes he says-'Cut the budget straight through 10% or 20%.' Then I take from my desk drawer a fat book and it is apparent at once that he never has seen or read the budget of the Government of the United States...
...function of that day was a convocation of Parliament to hear the Royal assent to a series of bills (a U. S.-Canada trade agreement, a wheat subsidy, the Dominion budget), something brand-new to Canada and a prerogative of the King-Emperor almost forgotten in England. At each the King nodded, and the deputy clerk droned "His Majesty doth assent." But as a warning that no individual may supersede Parliament, Ottawa's seven old men of the Supreme Court filed into the Senate chamber and plumped down on a big circular woolsack, from which they could symbolically keep...
...nothing to lose by promoting drastic measures for which the Premier would be chiefly blamed. He outlined a "threeyear plan" for return to "a liberal-capitalist economy" by stimulating private industry. The 40-hour week, darling of former Premier Blum's Popular Front, was abolished. The ordinary budget (exclusive of emergency arms expenditures) was balanced by increasing direct and indirect taxes ($265,000,000 and slashing expenses, 40,000 surplus State Railway workers alone being fired. To leave the capital market free to industry, M. Reynaud promised that the Government would float no long-term loans until...