Word: budgeted
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...electric lights for a few hours, and one attendant"--is not quite correct. It means not only that expense but also the expense of heating, which alone is figured at five dollars an evening, and unfortunately these expenses amount to a higher sum of money than our budget will stand...
...misnamed Radical Socialist), warmed up the Chamber until finally even his enemies on the extreme Left and Right were cheering him. He won a smash vote of confidence 470 to 120 - in effect on the issue of Adolf Hitler. After that the Chamber buckled down to debate the budget with "extreme urgency" and the life of the Daladier Cabinet was in danger every minute...
Getting out of committee the Blum-Daladier squabble was soon raging in the Chamber lobbies and finally Socialist Blum declared himself opposed to the Premier's entire theory of balancing the budget on a sound money basis by drastic economies and increased taxation...
...Inflation will come within six weeks," M. Daladier told the Chamber Finance Commission, "unless the budget is balanced!" " Inflation is preferable," retorted M. Blum in his newspaper the Populaire, "to such budgetary deflation as Daladier pro poses...
...Cabinet and by so doing bolster the franc. "Only today," he cried, "200,000,000 francs in gold have been withdrawn from the Bank of France!" At M. Blum the Premier shouted that, if defeated, he would go to the nation and tell the voters of France that their budget had been wrecked "because of the obstinacy and intriguing of the Socialists on whom the full responsibility must rest!" Frenchmen had only academic interest in the armament trust. But they cared vitally about new taxation. Officials called out the police and the Garde Républicaine, who with steel helmets...