Word: budgeted
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Alarmed at the indisputable increase in expenditures, President Hoover had some figures of his own compiled by the Budget Bureau. With his Cabinet he considered anew the problem of Federal finance, ordered each member to "undertake a searching inquiry into every branch of the Government as to methods by which econ omies may be brought about." He was "confident we shall find measures for very considerable reductions of actual outlay below the amounts appropriated...
Speaking of budget estimates and not of actual appropriations by Congress as were Messrs. Wood and Byrns, the President announced: "The total budget estimates for the present fiscal year are $4,203,254,457 as compared with actual expenditures for the last fiscal year of $3,994,152,487 or an increase of $209,101,970, being an in crease of 5%. ... The largest increases are for the speeding up of buildings, inland waterways and public works to assist in unemployment, together with increased relief of veterans...
...There has been some confusion as to the amount of increased appropriations imposed by the last Congress by the mistaken inclusion of authorized programs which extend over many years and only in a small part fall in each annual budget...
...Traitor" King. In their campaign speeches Bachelors Bennett and King have made amply clear that each is resolved to deprive the U. S. of any undue tariff advantage. The recent budget, brought in by Mr. King's Finance Minister, the Rt. Hon. Charles Avery ("Charlie") Dunning (TIME, May 12). wobbled as far from traditional free trade as did the Al Smith- Democratic platform...
...President von Hindenburg was in ripe mood for drastic action when Chancellor Heinrich Briining of all Germany reported that in the Reich- stag the national Socialist party was continuing to hamstring his fiscal program. Already two luckless Finance Ministers had been forced to resign. The Socialists were blocking the Budget. What should two old soldiers do about these pesky Socialists?for Herr Briining too is an old soldier (Iron Cross...