Word: budgeted
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...sound money and inflation is a grim one. The only inescapable fact in the situation is that the government can relieve material suffering, and at the same time stimulate Industrial activity by issuing flat money or "flat" deposits on a large scale, or by forgetting to balance the budget...
...York City some 1,100,000 children registered and entered school. For them the Board of Education has approved a budget of 130-odd million dollars, $2,000,000 higher than last year despite Mayor John Patrick O'Brien's requests to prune. The Board plans to fill two vacant superintendencies despite his orders not to. ¶ In North Carolina rural youngsters learned they might have to go to school six days a week, the Legislature having raised the State-supported school term (by which every school board gets a minimum grant) from six months to eight...
...President on East 64th Street. The seagoing President ordered the Coast Guard specially mobilized to search for these neighbors. ¶Secretary of the Treasury Woodin was an overnight guest at Hyde Park. He assured newshawks that currency inflation was not even being contemplated at present. Another Presidential visitor was Budget Director Douglas who was instructed to keep regular 1935 government costs below $2,500,000,000. A third caller was Governor Montagu Norman of the Bank of England, escorted by Governor Harrison of the New York Federal Reserve Bank. Last week Britain ceased pegging the pound. ¶To speed...
Milwaukee's troubles stemmed largely from Mayor Hoan's refusal to cut city salaries beyond the voluntary 10% deduction set aside for relief. Taxpayers had to resort to the initiative & referendum to chip $7,000,000 off the 1933 budget. Municipal employes went unpaid during April, May and June while, the city hoarded cash to meet its bond interest payments. A grand jury, discovering a $500,000 embezzlement of city funds, indicted Comptroller Louis M. Kotecki for failing to discover the loss in his treasury audits. One day two months ago Kotecki shot himself dead after wounding...
...When the apes go, so will the British" is another belief to which Gibraltar's polyglot population fondly clings. Sensible Britishers smile tolerantly, take no chances on the apes disappearing. Food for them is a standard item in Gibraltar's colonial budget...