Word: budgeteer
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...producer scores a bull's-eye with a shot in the dark. They usually last until there is no room left on the target. Last week there was a volley of shots-in-the-dark when three major moviemakers simultaneously fired away at the same place, released big-budget pictures chronicling the doings of the white man in Africa. Two bull's-eyes and one clean miss, last week's African broadside practically amounted to a cinema cycle in itself...
...their first official meeting, when President Dykstra presented his budget request, the Governor questioned his figures, asked for "simple arithmetic." Later he knocked $1,000,000 out of the budget. President Dykstra expressed the hope that the Legislature would restore some of the cut; Governor Heil accused him of spreading "propaganda." Last spring the Governor sounded off on the subject of the university as follows...
...both Catholic and Socialist Parties. Dr Colijn has ruled by forming unstable coalitions with the Catholics. Month ago the Cabinet split because the young energetic Catholics wanted to pitch into the unemployment problem with expensive public works and generous relief. This old Dr Colijn could not permit, for the budget was already unbalanced by an extensive armament program. The Cabinet resigned...
Last week the Detroit Symphony, needing $75,000 to complete a $280,000 budget for the approaching season, faced a problem much like the Metropolitan's. In its 25 years, the Symphony raised $4,000,000 by passing the hat. Half the donations came from twelve old Detroit families, headed by such men as Senator James Couzens, Motorman Roy Dikeman Chapin, Banker Julius Haass, Milkman Jerome Remick-all dead today. A newer generation of motor manufacturers, which never had much time for music, or which was left out of cultural shindigs in the old days, now sits...
...Government's net contribution was reduced during the crucial March-September period in 1937 to a monthly average of $60,000,000 from $335,000,000 during 1936. 2) "Compensatory" Federal spending to stimulate heavy industry might be more flexible if concentrated "in large part outside the regular budget...