Word: budgeted
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...House Ways & Means Committee was speaking with the sanction of the President-elect when he declared: "I'd rather have the dentist pull my back teeth than support a sales tax, but I don't see any other alternative if we're going to balance the Budget." Chimed in Speaker Garner who as Vice President-elect is supposed to know the Roosevelt mind: "If it is necessary to have a manufacturers' tax to balance the Budget, I'd have...
Capitalized Construction. Another idea from Albany called for the Government to remove expenditures for public works from the regular budget paid out of current receipts and capitalize them separately by means of a bond issue. Of this trick Speaker Garner snapped: "Mere bookkeeping...
Reorganization, The next manifestation of Albany control over Washington occurred when South Carolina's Senator Byrnes announced that, at Governor Roosevelt's specific request, blanket authority would be given the next President to reorganize and abolish multifarious executive agencies to save money, balance the Budget. Not since War days had it been proposed to give the White House such extraordinary power. How he would use it Mr. Roosevelt would decide after he had mastered the detailed set-up of the Federal Government later this month at Warm Springs. Already his agents were reported scurrying through the executive departments...
...Received from the Appropriations Committee a $31,421,000 general deficiency bill. The Treasury's budget request for $40,000,000 for tax refunds was called "excessive," reduced...
...abandonment of the training table in the Varsity Club is primarily the result of the decreased budget of the H. A. A. It is expected that between $1000 and $2000 a year will be saved under the new system. The change was first proposed two years ago, but was opposed by undergraduate members of the Athletic committee and postponed. The former method will be resumed if the new experiment does not justify expectations of economy, or if its effect on House solidarity is considered detrimental, according to Clark...