Word: budgeted
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...lend them the balance for such self-amortizing public works as toll bridges and tunnels. The yet-to-be-balanced Budget would not be disturbed by a bond issue...
...President's plan not only steered clear of the Budget but also of the Treasury's credit. It would be financed by the sale of R. F. C. debentures which are only indirect obligations of the Government. Senator Robinson took it back to the Capitol where his party colleagues closeted themselves in an effort to draft a legislative compromise. Most Democrats objected to the idea of R. F. C. loans to private industries rather than to public agencies on the ground that the Administration could use this financial power to muster election votes. Republican Senators, generally cold...
...public support for his plan the President issued another statement about "balancing the Budget," "unity of action, and "frozen confidence." Said he: I have no taste for any such emergency powers. [But] the battle to set our economic machine in motion takes new forms and requires new tactics. We used such emergency powers to win the War; we can use them to fight the Depression...
...Maintenance Department, because of its huge scope necessarily furnished the largest report but the Biology Department, not to be outdone, when the more essential guardians of the appearance of the University demanded 18,000 tons of soft coal to add a weighty $90,000 to their budget, retaliated with an order for three Praying Mantel Ootheca, which the International Dictionary says is "an egg case, especially those of many kinds of mollusks and of some im insects, as the cockroach," to swell their total by $3. Oddly enough, the Purchasing Agent was forced to buy one gallon of Cidol disinfectant...
...issue before the country is the re-establishment of confidence by ending these delays in balancing the Budget. . . . It is not a partisan issue . . . not a controversy between the President and Congress. It is an issue of the people against delays and destructive legislation which impair the credit of the United States. It is also an issue between the people and the locust swarm of lobbyists who haunt the halls of Congress seeking selfish privileges . . . misleading members as to the real views of the people by showers of propaganda. . . . This is a serious hour which demands that the people rise...