Word: budgeted
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Turks, who threw away fez and veil at President Mustafa Kemal's command, set about achieving last week that much more difficult Western reform, a balanced budget...
Committee. President Hoover took up the Congressional challenge for specifications of economies and invited to the White House an informal House group known as the Economy Committee. To the meeting also went Secretaries Mills and Wilbur, Postmaster General Brown and Director of the Budget Roop. Most taciturn of officials, Director Roop was asked if what he was carrying in his fat brief case was the Budget. Replied he: "What's left...
Washington last week seriously bestirred itself in the general direction of economy. Large were the necessities for action. Last December President Hoover, proud that he had pruned out $365,000,000 in unnecessary expenditures, submitted to Congress a budget calling for $3.996,000,000. Revised estimates and supplemental items later advanced this to $4,112,000,000. To balance the Budget (exclusive of public debt retirement) a billion-odd dollars had to be raised by new taxation and another 200 millions saved in appropriations. Where and how was this economy?5% of the Budget?to be effected...
...Hoover has been President three years and apparently the manner in which the American Government operates is still a mystery to him. . . . Mr. Hoover's record on the Budget is one of postponement and temporizing. ... He let matters drift as long as the letter of the law permitted him to. ... Why does he not suggest the necessary changes? Instead of making them on his own authority and responsibility he is proposing at the beginning of the tenth month of the [fiscal] year to set up a committee. The vice of this procedure lies in. its timidity and evasiveness...
...Simultaneously the German budget estimates for next year were released by Finance Minister Hermann Dietrich with Reparations payments omitted. "This omission does not mean that Germany does not want to pay," said Dr. Dietrich. "It means Germany...