Word: budgeteer
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...next General Election, members of the National Government, as moderate Conservatives, felt last week that what seemed to them popular folly must be resisted to the last. In the teeth of the pinko-pacifist straw vote, his Majesty's Government hurled before the House of Commons defense budget estimates providing in the coming fiscal year 6% more money for the Navy, 10% more for the Army and 17% more for the Royal Air Force...
...Prime Minister, on this showing, the Perfect Administrator can be counted on to unbalance Britain's budget and get the Empire magnificently out of gear in the name of Humanity and Dietetics. Feeling that a "national emergency" exists in the fact that Herbert Morrison today is probably the people's choice, members of His Majesty's Government were believed last week to have up their sleeves a scheme to block 1936's scheduled general election and keep the Perfect Administrator out of No. 10 Downing St. until...
...compromise seems to offer the only solution. The libraries themselves, with their present limited budget, can do little more than buy a few new books each year for course and tutorial assignments. However, each library could set aside a nucleus of the best contemporary literature, weeded out of the heterogeneous mass. Such a section in the library, devoted to modern fiction, drama, and poetry, would be the natural place for browsing. In addition, books from these designated shelves could be taken out for perhaps a one or two-week period...
...pursuing-borrowing money for public expenditures and increasing our enormous deficit each year-will chill the confidence of businessmen in the future prospects of reasonable profits. . . . Business is ready to resume its forward march once it can be assured that the currency will remain sound, that the budget will be balanced . . . that economy and efficiency will inspire the Government...
Author O'Hara's subjects are as topical and immediate as newspaper stories: an influenza epidemic in a Pennsylvania mining district; a bus-girl in a Coffee Pot figuring up her budget; a smalltime crook getting the double-cross from his cronies. Almost without exception his characters are knaves, fools, or a mixture of both. But Author O'Hara edits his copy so cannily that his reports of their knavish or foolish goings-on are arresting...