Word: budgeteer
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...believe in the redistribution of wealth, in Title II of the Banking Bill (government-controlled central bank), in AAA crop restriction. Hence John Nance Garner is much closer in economic views to Carter Glass than to Franklin Roosevelt. In fact, when Garner was in the House he favored budget balancing and government economy. Nearest he got to New Deal financial views was when as Speaker he went on record for a public works program of a billion or two-and for that the Republicans booed him loudly (TIME, June...
...Bourbon porters were filling all the inkwells and placing a large brass dinner bell on the Speaker's desk, for the most powerful, least responsible legislative body in the world, the Chamber of Deputies, was about to meet. Every Frenchman knew what they were faced with: an immediate budget deficit of ten billion francs ($658,300,000), that was causing the French franc, keystone of Europe's gold bloc, to tremble on the verge of devaluation. Either the Chamber must swallow its pride, vote extraordinary powers to the Flandin ministry or else the Cabinet must fall and France...
...sober-sided City men of the British Bankers Association were treated one night last week to an outburst of joy from the most formidable Tory of them all-the chill Chancellor of His Majesty's Exchequer, Neville Chamberlain. The man who has given Britain budget surpluses for two years past rose in his place, took off his eyeglasses, looked paternally about him and all but chortled, "We meet in an atmosphere of such happiness and contentment as has not been seen since the War." He proceeded to document the atmosphere with an impressive set of figures...
...Fascist Senate at Rome last week, Undersecretary for Colonies Alessandro Lessona had just finished arousing speech on his colonial budget, on conditions in the North African colony of Libya. Up to the tribune stomped Benito Mussolini himself...
...whose postal service in many a city seemed about to collapse under the weight of chain mail. The Post Office has ruled chain letters illegal but it was waggishly suggested that if the craze would only last, Jim Farley's postal receipts would eventually balance the U. S. budget...