Word: budgeted
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Conflict with the Senate again marred the peace of President Hoover's week. Well-intentioned, he warned the Congress against legislation which, if passed, he knew would bloat the budget, necessitate tax increases. The same set of Senators who had flayed him for his silence on the tariff rose up to denounce him for speaking out against extravagance. President Hoover shifted his ground under this attack, appealed to the country at large to support economy. ¶ President Hoover selected John North Willys, onetime motorman, as U. S. Ambassador to Poland, to succeed the late Alexander Pollock Moore. ¶ With...
Said the Newton statement: ''The Director of the Budget has prepared a survey of the various projects which have been presented to Congress which will involve additional expenditure. . . . The amounts below are a summary of these projects [here follows a list of 24 items totalling $1,735,000,000]. Such a program would imply an increase in taxes of 40%. Other projects, not regarded as imminent, would impose a further expenditure of fully $1,500,000,000 per annum...
Foreign Affairs: Aristide Briand* Justice: Raoul Peret* Finance: Paul Reynaud* Budget: Louis Germain-Martin * War: Andre Maginot* Marine: J. L. Dumesnil* Merchant Marine: Louis Rollin* Air: Laurent Eynac* Public Instruction: Pierre Marraud* Public Works: Georges Pernot* Commerce: Pierre Etienne Flandin* Agriculture: Fernand David* Colonies: François Pietri* Telegraphs: Andre Mallarme* Labor: Pierre Laval* Pensions: Champetier de Ribes...
...protracted discussion of the Tariff, with its consequent delay to other important legislation. He spoke darkly of thousands of U. S. employes on public works who would have to be laid off unless Congress voted them money soon, then warned Congress not to spend more money than the budget authorized...
...Minseito, his party, gained 101 new seats (giving them 273 of the 466 parliamentary seats) in the most impressive vote of confidence given any Japanese Government in a generation. Bristle-haired Prime Minister "Shishi" who had led his campaign himself on a platform of government economy, balancing the budget without foreign loans, foreign conciliation, restoration of the gold standard, was delighted. Delighted too, were foreign observers at the London Naval Conference. It was felt that with the Minseito party so firmly re-established in power, the Japanese naval delegates could make concessions in their stubborn demands, need not fear popular...