Word: budgeteer
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Sanity is the gold standard. Sanity is a balanced budget. Sanity is free trade. These verities the Queen and many of her subjects consider eternal. Judged by such verities, the Great Powers have gone insane, turning sound money into unsound, unbalancing budgets meant to be balanced, and shutting out cheap goods by tariffs, with the result that their own peoples have to pay more than they otherwise would for the necessities of life...
...likely to cost ten billion lire" ($825,000,000). This "inside figure" was based on nothing more profound than multiplying by the extremely convenient figure ten the sum II Duce says he has already spent on belligerent preparations, namely one billion lire ($82,500,000). The budget of Italy has not balanced throughout Depression, and the public debt, which stood at 97 billions ($8,002,500,000) two years ago, has now topped 105 billions...
...these many years, Il Duce has been hoeing this hard row, and last week Premier Laval joined him. Of the 28 new French emergency decrees, eight seek to make necessities of life easier to buy, and the other 20 effect economies and new taxes designed to balance the French budget...
...Today the salvation of the franc demands sacrifices from every Frenchman. The State debt has grown from 260 milliards [billions] to 340 milliards of francs [$22,555,000,000]. To balance our budget requires equality of sacrifice from rich & poor, high & low. My Government stands for such equality of sacrifice, for solid currency and for domestic peace...
...full Admiral's regalia. Such antics have their use. While Premier Okada has monopolized the spotlight, Finance Minister Takahashi has been able to wage quietly and not altogether without success a grim battle for budgetary economy against War Minister Hayashi and Navy Minister Osumi. Though the Japanese budget last week was fantastically unbalanced by $88,000,000, the Government nonetheless had Japanese essentials well enough in hand to be worried about its stand on the Divine Emperor...