Word: budgeted
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...retain all regular employes on its rolls notwithstanding the continued shrinkage of mail volume. . . . Much more harm than good would result from throwing great numbers of postal workers into the ranks of unemployed. Resort should not be had to further rate increases as a means of balancing the postal budget. ... It is recommended that legislation be enacted to restore the 2-cent rate to local or drop letters...
...four billion dollars on which to run the Government during fiscal 1934. Unless these are all enacted before March 4 a special session of the 73rd Congress is inevitable. Later the House will vote on a beer bill and perhaps knock together a special revenue measure to balance the Budget. If it gets that much done in the next two and one-half months it will pat itself on the back and think it has established a "lame duck" record...
...head of the bureau suggests that the reason for the failure to place more men in the last two graduating classes is that those men either refused to believe that conditions beyond the cloister were as bad as had been represented, or had reason to expect that the family budget would somehow permit them to spend a peaceful year in the graduate schools. If one reads the correct meaning into the statistics, it has taken two years for college men to become conscious of the fact that the Depression was anything more than a blemish in newspaper headlines...
...parents, rather than on the student himself. That unconsciousness is the product of a system, conceived withal for his benefit, which gives many a youth more pocket money than he can possibly spend, which often considers his whims of more importance than those of his family in readjusting the budget, which feeds and clothes and amuses him with luxury,--which, in short, places him in a class entirely removed from the rest of the world...
There may be small reason for such an attitude; House Libraries may be more than adequate to meet the increased demands of the reading period. And certainly, from the point of view of the Widener budget, any readjustment would be disturbing. But to the uninitiated these questions seem to require serious attention and a full answer. If the 'House Libraries are inadequate, why must that discovery be made only after the reading period has begun? Why cannot the House and Widener Librarians confer, with reading lists before them, and come to some informed decision? These loom prominent in the undergraduate...