Word: budgeted
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Charles Gates Dawes for profane vehemence originated with this testimony of his, given Feb. 2, 1921 as the A. E. F.'s Chief of Procurement to a Congressional committee investigating War expenditures. A few months later this reputation further expanded when Mr. Dawes, as first Director of the Budget, gave an audience of Federal bureaucrats a literal demonstration of how to economize on brooms. On March 4, 1925 when he was being sworn in as Vice President the violence of Mr. Dawes's castigation of the Senate and its time-wasting rules completely stole the inaugural show from...
Tall, straight and spry when he made his budget speech fortnight ago, Chancellor Neville Chamberlain of the British Exchequer was sorely crippled by a sudden attack of lumbago last week. Slowly, painfully he limped into the Treasury for an important conference with Sir George Ernest May. the actuary who is chairman of Great Britain's important Import Duties Advisory Committee of three...
Like Cornell last month (TIME, April 18), Yale University sent out word last week to its alumni that money is needed to balance this year's budget. In the post-War depression, it was pointed out, the graduates helped raise nearly a million dollars. This year a deficit of more than half a million is expected. Yale's income has dropped $372,000, because of reductions in dividends and interest defaults. As if to answer frequent criticism that Yale, like many another big college, has gone on a building spree, the appeal for funds gives figures showing...
...respect Chancellor Snowden erred conspicuously last year, overestimated by £18,000,000 the revenue from estate duties. To this error (resulting from the fact that an unusually small number of rich men died during the year) Chancellor Chamberlain alluded by making the only joke in his budget speech. "I am reminded," said he stroking his mustache, "of that story concerning the Peninsular War, the story of the General who saw his troops hesitate to charge and encouraged them by exclaiming, 'You don't want to live forever...
...finally cancel both Reparations and War Debts?thus leaving the U. S. taxpayer holding the entire bag. "After the deliberations at Lausanne," said Mr. Chamberlain, "I shall submit to Parliament whatever proposals may be necessary to give effect to the measures we have agreed to." He presented in his budget no figure for such payments, either by Britain to the U. S. or to Britain from the Continent. "The best course is to refrain from all conjectures," said he, "and treat the account on both sides as being in suspense." By this technique Neville Chamberlain balanced his "maiden budget...