Word: budgeted
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Premier "Mitch," after the first paroxysms of his triumph, began behaving like the canny farmer he is. at heart. Claiming his Conservative predecessors had left him a budgetary deficit of $3,734,000 which they "falsely represented" as a surplus of $476,000, "Mitch" started balancing Ontario's budget by cutting his own salary as Premier from $12,000 to $10,000, cut his Cabinet Members from $10,000 to $8,000. Further slashing reduced Ontario Government salaries all along the line, cuts in some cases as much as 50% being carried into the Ontario Liquor Board and Ontario...
...users of electricity. Last week some of these wealthy Canadian interests which had flayed Premier Hepburn for tearing up the power contracts were now arrayed behind him because of his fight against C. I. O. According to orthodox Canadian newsorgans, the Premier has now indisputably balanced Ontario's budget, retired $33,000,000 in bonds of the Province and augmented revenues while reducing taxes. This has been possible partly because of the return of better times, partly because "Mitch" discovered that numbers of wealthy Ontario families have been systematically cheating on the Province's stiff inheritance taxes...
...tight, well-managed squirearchy whose armament expenditures reach only one-twelfth of its balanced budget, Hungary never ceased to earmark money for the debt payment. Although its partial resumption leaves it a defaulter and thus still ineligible for further U. S. loans under the Johnson Act, consensus was that little Hungary, by stepping up alongside little Finland, had made a shrewd and timely move back toward the U. S. money market...
...will seen be asked to contribute money to this Council budget. The majority of this money is given to charities in Cambridge and Boston, and a certain amount to such national organizations as the Red Cross. Each year roughly three thousand dollars is given to the Phillips Brooks House fund. Around a thousand dollars is laid aside to help students deemed worthy by the Council who are unable to meet a form bill. The purpose of this original contribution is then to take care of requests from Charitable Organizations with which you would otherwise be flooded during the rest...
...More important politically was the mayor of greater (Chinese) Shanghai, Yu Hung-chun who prefers to Americanize his name to Mr. O. K. Yui. Nothing so simple as a direct municipal election is possible in the China of Chiang Kaishek. Shanghai's mayoralty with the administration of a budget of $3,000,000-one of the most important jobs in the East-is a direct appointment from Generalissimo Chiang. For five years Shanghai's mayor was suave General Wu Te-chen who became a national hero in the Japanese invasion of 1032 Last March Generalissimo Chiang decided that...