Word: budgeteer
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...artillerymen, General Hagood lacks neither brains nor tongue. Pleading for money for Army housing before a subcommittee of the House Appropriations Committee last December, he spoke as follows: "[I am] not familiar with the various pockets in which Uncle Sam keeps his money [but I understand that] there is budget money which is very hard to get; there is PWA money which is not so hard to get, and then there is a vast quantity of WPA money which is very easy to get for trifling projects but almost impossible to get for anything worthwhile. . . . It is harder...
...Surprise-of-the-week was furnished by Princeton's Graduate Manager of Athletics. Asa S. Bushnell, who announced that this year's meet will be free, to avoid charges of track commercialization. Sportswriters, aware of the painful deficit in Princeton's athletic budget, thought the move ridiculous...
Week before in Manhattan had met the Church's National Council, bothered as usual by the money troubles which proverbial Episcopal wealth never seems quite great enough to down. This time it was $127,000 that was needed, to balance a missionary budget of $2,700,000. The National Council decided that if the difference is not contributed by March 31, missionary work will just have to be cut. Gloomed Treasurer Lewis Battelle Franklin: "We should go directly to the people of this Church and tell them that the missionary work of the Church is dying on its feet...
There is still no sign that Franklin Roosevelt's great confidence has begun to crumble. Nevertheless there were ample signs last week that he felt the necessity of reconsidering his position in preparation for the November election. When he delivered his budget message only six weeks ago, it breathed assurance that his financial policies would be sound political ground on which to stand for reelection. He said: "Our policy is succeeding. The figures prove it." The figures he produced indicated a net deficit for fiscal 1937 of only $518,000,000, exclusive of work-relief expenditures. They promised rising...
...straits of Election Year, between the Rock of Taxes and the Whirlpool of Deficit, he realized last week that it would require serious effort on his part to find a safe political passage. Secretary Morgenthau conferred with him nearly every day. Budget Director Bell, Secretaries Wallace and Ickes, Assistant WPAdministrator Williams, RFChairman Jones, Rexford G. Tugwell, Chester Davis, Housing Administrator McDonald came & went. It would be safer to steer a little toward the Rock of Taxes, for the Congressional current would suck him back anyway to the Whirlpool. Hence he confirmed the fact that he would ask about half...