Word: budgeteer
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...were bent on starting a move to have Governor Merriam recalled as soon as the six months' legal period of grace had elapsed following his inauguration. But the biggest headache of all for Governor Merriam was the problem of raising funds to meet the $347,000,000 California budget, swollen by mounting relief costs...
...opposes the Congressional program of spending billions of dollars on relief and reconstruction. However, all but the most infatuated followers of the various pied pipers recognize the necessity of paying the bills. Mr. Morgenthau gave no indication that his government had any plan for doing so. What the present budget would look like if placed on a scale is indescribable, but it seems safe to say that its lack of balance is the red handwriting the businessmen of the country have been seeing on the wall...
...persuaded the paper's creditors that he could make the paper pay its way, and he did. He got similar results with his farms and orchards. The job of doing so made him what he is: pink-faced, sober and. more significant politically, a believer in economy and budget balancing...
Turning directly to the Administration, Mr. Dougins alleged it was committed to monetary manipulation, that its public works program has failed utterly to reduce unemployment, and that emergency expenditures have increased to such an extent as to render a balanced budget, a return to fiscal sanity, to financial responsibility, difficult if not impossible. In his estimate of what has been called recent recovery, Mr. Douglas found only a hollow illusion, created largely by huge government appropriations, and by flat credit...
Lewis W. Douglas, former Director of the Budget, will deliver the second of a series of four Godkin Lectures this afternoon in New Lecture Hall at 4.30 o'clock...