Word: budgeted
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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April 14?Presentation of the national budget to the British House of Commons by Chancellor of the Exchequer Philip Snowden; in London...
...miscalculate two items: 1) the parley's long-windedness; 2) the high cost of official London life. In six weeks he and his six colleagues and their assistants had spent all of the $200,000 Congress had given them for their mission. Official explanation by Director of the Budget Roop: "Expenses have been greater than anticipated. Moreover an unforeseen delay [due to French troubles] has occurred...
Tentative plans call for 100 members, with a self-perpetuating executive committee of 15-"massing the best business talent of the church for the wisest possible handling of consecrated funds." The Foundation will not interfere with the annual Presbyterian benevolence budget (about $12,000,000), but will seek contributions from people who would not ordinarily give to mission boards and other church departments. Work anticipated: assistance to colleges, hospitals, seminaries, medical missions; disaster relief...
...could look behind the scenes in London I think you would find that the vital fact is not so much the technical problem of cruisers and submarines as the pressure of big industries on the governments. Since armaments still form 25 percent of our government budget the steel industry, remembering what the disarming of Germany did to the Krupp works, is still strong for a big navy...
...rubber stampings at $10 each give the British Treasury an extra $1,000,000 every year. Rather than lose this, Chancellor of the Exchequer Philip Snowden, now in the agony of bringing forth a budget which will balance despite an increase in the "dole" paid to British can't-works and won't-works, insisted stubbornly that the "nuisance" be continued, even against the ultimate interests of the Empire...