Word: budgeted
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Rapidan camp President Hoover last week took his tall, angular friend Dr. Ray Lyman Wilbur, Secretary of the Interior, and eight Wilbur assistants. Their purpose: to devise Interior economies to help reduce the prospective billion-dollar budget. When the executives came down the mountainside (their cars in low gear because of mud), a plan had been worked out whereby $4,000,000 would be snipped out of Interior expenditures this year, $6,000,000 next year, $8,000,000 the year after. Added to the War Department pruning planned the previous week-end (see p. 19), the Interior cut will...
...Washington police department was asked to explain why it did not give foreign embassies and legations better protection. Its chief insisted they got the best attention the force could afford on its limited budget...
Proudest man in the Irish Free State last week was Ernest Blythe, Minister of Finance since 1923, Vice President of the Executive Council since 1927. Shrewdly waiting until fortnight after the British budget was read, he announced his budget last week. In the second year of World Depression, with formidable deficits facing the governments of Great Britain, Italy, Germany, the U. S., Australia, Argentina, etc., etc., Finance Minister Blythe was able to announce that the Irish budget for 1931-32 balances easily at ?24,661,000 ($123,305,000). Taxation yields for the past year have exceeded estimates...
...those familiar shades arose, and as I recalled to memory all the criticisms and scathing censures he lavished upon each of them, I wondered whether I had not perhaps left behind some of my old budget notes and that one of his able secretaries had by mistake put them into Mr. Snowden's red despatch...
...check up on Dr. Frank's efficiency if not his Liberalism, Governor La Follette called for a strict accounting of the University's recent record. He lopped large sums from the University budget. After an investigation which went into such things as Dr. Frank's salary ($20,400), his earnings from press-writings (about $20,000) and the salary of Mike, his chauffeur ($2,010), the Legislature restored some of the monies President Frank wanted, but Governor La Follette came off best in the attendant publicity...