Word: budgeted
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...right, and it's all my fault. That's one time I didn't take Jim Farley's advice. He wanted me to go into Vermont and Maine. . . . Now I'm going back to Washington-to do what they call balance the Budget and fulfill the first promise of the campaign, and after a week or so with the Budget I'm going to get some sleep, and, because I can really sleep on a boat, I'm going on a boat to the Caribbean, and I'm going...
...Next week, he announced, he would go to Charleston, board the fast cruiser Indianapolis and probably speed under forced draft all the way to Buenos Aires to make a speech at the opening session of the Pan-American Peace Conference. Meantime he saw his Cabinet, consulted Budget Director Bell, for a Budget has to be made up before Congress convenes on Jan. 5. To questions of newshawks about new Cabinet members, he answered by saying all that would have to wait. He found time, however, to dedicate a stone bench in Rock Creek Park as a memorial to late French...
Strangely enough, the profits of the House Dining Halls and the Union which were recorded for last year, amounted to $46,152.86, a figure practically identical with that of total tobacco costs among the undergraduates. This sum is accounted for in the annual budget under the head of Student Employment, and is regularly anticipated...
...Tulsa Alf Landon barked that "a member of my opponent's immediate family" had been "guilty of peddling a lie." The "lie" was the well-worn charge that Governor Landon had helped balance his budget by closing up 458 Kansas schools, thereby depriving 8,557 Kansas children of educational privileges. Fact was, declared the Nominee, that the closed schools had been sparsely attended, that all their pupils had been transferred to other schools, and that "not a single boy or girl in Kansas has been deprived of the educational advantages that are rightfully...
...door is modest, unostentatious, paneled in dark oak. Wallis spends 12 to 14 hours a day in it. Outside is a lounge resembling a small cocktail bar where daily waits a long succession of writers, supervisors, agents and technicians for decisive two-or three-minute interviews. Wallis checks every budget, red-penciling items he thinks too high. Models of every important set are carried in to be demonstrated to him. The mild, incessant hum of well-routined activity is occasionally broken by stormy story conferences. Producer Wallis may reject other men's ideas but he rarely enforces...