Word: budgeteer
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...fiscal 1935, it was reported that Kansas had again balanced its budget. At least ten other states had done likewise, but Governor Landon promptly got to a radio microphone, called the nation's attention to Kansas. Alert for a man who might put Franklin Roosevelt out of the White House. William Randolph Hearst sent a flying squad of investigators into Kansas to comb Alf Landon's private and public record. Reporting satisfactorily, they were followed by a flock of ace Hearst writers and the great Landon Boom...
Available on request at Governor Landon's Kansas City headquarters are mimeographed copies of press puffs ballyhooing him as the Great Budget Balancer. Alf Landon is careful to say, however, that the credit for Kansas' fiscal soundness "Does not belong to any one political party or State administration...
Kansas finances rest on three main props: 1) the Tax Limitation Act, restricting local taxing bodies to a maximum levy for any one purpose and to a maximum total; 2) the Budget Law, requiring local governments to publish their budgets in advance, hold public hearings; 3) the Cash Basis Law which limits every locality to pay-as-you-go spending. The last is a Landon measure. The first two were initiated by Democratic Governor Woodring. Governor Landon has stuck to the law's letter. But the enormous myth which GOPartisans have made of his budget-balancing feat...
President Roosevelt had asked for a $1,500,000,000 appropriation. He got $75,000,000 less because most of that sum had been shifted to CCC in a compromise with Congressmen who wanted more camps than the President had provided for in his budget. Lumped with about $1,000,000,000 which will be left over from this year's $4,880,000,000 appropriation, plus $675,000,000 for CCC and regular public works, the Government will have about $3,500,000,000 for 3,800,000 jobs in the year ending July 1. Roads and streets...
...general problem is shaded throughout by an acute financial situation. Although the budget has been balanced throughout the depression, yet every department has been forced to advance cautiously. In each one of these there are a limited number of highly paid positions in the way of professorships and other chairs. Men holding these positions are given life appointments for the most part, and changes of personnel do not occur frequently...