Word: budgeteer
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Bank of France an overdraft of $10,000,000 on which to keep his Treasury going for the moment. Socialist Auriol said he will not take the franc off the gold standard, will not nationalize but only "reform" the Bank of France and will not fail to balance the Budget...
...questions until they had 533 typewritten pages of data for their campaign. General Foods gave the young firm a terrific boost when it handed Salesman Benton six big food accounts on his birthday in 1932, still entrusts it with a handsome slice of its $10,000,000 annual advertising budget. One of Benton & Bowles's smartest stunts was to cash in on 1933 Repeal sentiment for Adolf Gobel, Inc. (frankfurters). Tired of writing about food, food, food, B. & B. called up 200 women in Manhattan, found only seven in favor of the 18th Amendment. Promptly they spread copy predicting...
...course, soared in price. It also happened that blocks of such bonds were largely bought just before the rise by British speculators, whose keen sense of values soon enabled them to make a greater killing in Newfoundlands in 1933 than in this year's rather pip-squeak Budget leak...
...budget is God-controlled. There is a real thrill and purpose in teas and dinner parties"-Mrs. Howard Reynolds. "I took time off from studying the part to listen to what God had to tell me. All fear of competition vanished"-Marion Clayton Anderson, bit player in Mutiny on the Bounty...
...Congress changed the year from 365 days to 1,000, thus dispensing with elections for a long time. The tax year, however, was reduced to 200 days. Gaily oblivious to its other stories on the Treasury, the Bawl Street Journal also declared that Secretary Morgenthau hoped to balance the budget by having the Government pay a 50% income tax on its own income. "Certainly a 50% increase in income will silence all our critics," Mr. Morgenthau was reported as saying. "True, there may be loopholes where an unscrupulous Government might find ways to avoid paying taxes to itself...