Word: budgeteer
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...declaring : "Surely Mr. Roosevelt can be defeated. ... I am confident that Governor Landon of Kansas could be elected on the Republican ticket. . . . "He has a fine war record. He has a clean business record. ... He is a sound and intelligent economist. He has balanced his State's budget. He has reduced taxation. ... He says that the trouble with the visionary gentlemen in Washington is that they have never had to meet a Saturday night payroll." The Hearst Universal Service promptly got behind Publisher Hearst's man, recalled Governor Landon's 25% reduction of State salaries...
...which was not lost upon the Western Republicans as he continued: "Under the New Deal the expenditures have been divided into 'Regular' expenditures and 'emergency' or 'Recovery' expenditures. These are new words for an old South American and European device of dividing the budget into 'Ordinary' and 'extraordinary' budgets. . . . The theory is that the next generation should pay for the emergencies of this generation. . . . "The expenditures are now running over $8,000,000,000 a year. The annual deficit is running nearly $3,500,000,000. . . . The unpaid government obligations...
Just before dissolution, Finance Minister Hans Peter Hansen presented a budget, ideally suited to electioneering purposes, showing an 18,000,000 kroner ($3,940,200) surplus for last year, promising a smaller surplus next year...
...announced that any industry which would like to try NRA again was welcome to apply to George L. Berry, longtime printers' unionist and onetime Blue Eaglet. The United Press also reported that the Administration was seven billion dollars behind its immediate spending program, would soon "issue a revised budget that will give a new, sharper and more glowing picture...
...Four days after the President left Washington the Budget Bureau released his "supplemental" budget message, in which he predicted that the national deficit for fiscal 1936 would fall $1,246,526,110 below his estimate to Congress last January. "The prevailing rate of recovery," cheerily chirped the President, "points to the speedy decline of Federal expenditures for emergency activities. The 1937 budget is now being prepared with a view to sharply decreasing the spread between income and outgo. Thus it is clear to me that the Federal Government . . . will not need new taxes...