Word: budgeted
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...balance next year's budget and absorb an estimated deficit of $1,241,000,000 the House Ways & Means Committee had drafted, without politics or partisanship, a bill to raise by taxation $1,096,000,000 above current receipts. To make up the difference the committee anticipated a $125,000,000 cut in Government expenses and a $25,000,000 increase in postal income. If all worked well, which it rarely does, the Treasury would squeak through 1933 with $5,000,000 to spare. The new or increased taxes before the House and the estimated revenue from each were...
...They vehemently argued that it was a tax upon the necessities of life, and hence upon the poor man, without regard to ability to pay. Mockingly they declared that the only thing exempt would be admission to a bread line. Some hotheads even denied the necessity of balancing the Budget by taxation at all. To each & every critic of the sales tax, secretly afraid of losing his political skin in the next election, acting Chairman Crisp calmly retorted: "Where else can you raise the necessary money...
...imposed upon under the present arrangement. But in all its expenses except salaries Harvard is experiencing a decided reduction. Faculty salaries should naturally be the last items to suffer, but the general scale of living has gradually been lowered and as soon as Harvard can adjust its budget to the new conditions the benefits derived from the reduced expenses should be turned to the advantage of the student. A lowering of room rents now seems imminent; it will not be long before a decrease in food prices and other costs will be justified...
...official budget of the Student Council as announced last night by J. R. Collins '32, treasurer of the Council, lists contributions amounting to $2000 to be divided among six charity foundations. Phillips Brooks House will receive its usual quota of $4000, which is distributed to other charity organizations directly connected with Brooks House...
...General (Convention last September a missions budget of $4,225,000 was approved. Last month this budget was reduced by some $600,000. Missionary bishops both abroad and in the U. S. ruefully accepted a 10% reduction in their salaries. Salaries of all missionaries and office workers were also reduced. But still to be lopped off the budget was an additional $400,000 which will be a chief concern of extraordinary meetings of the House of Bishops and the National Council in Garden City, L. I. next month...