Word: budgeteer
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...last year), it contains 1,563,189 square feet of floor space (36.88 acres), 414 miles of steel shelving. It catalogues the important holdings of more than 700 other U. S. libraries, has published about 400 titles of its own, employs 1,055 People, has a $3,000,000 budget. Into it, before he takes office next autumn, will presumably go one more MacLeish opus, a poem on which he was working last week in the Massachusetts hills...
Recently New York's Republican State Legislature and New York City's economizing Board of Estimate cut $8,300,000 from the budget of New York City's Board of Education. Last week the Board announced that it would have...
...Spending is a 'bad' word. Avoid it like a copperhead. Talk about Government running expenses and Government plant. Talk about putting the Government budget on a business basis, rather than about triple budgets or capital budgets. If spending must be discussed, always remember that every dollar spent by the Government is usually a dollar of sales on the books of some business man. Keep spending firmly associated with sales, wages, purchasing power-all good words...
...Arizona and follow his grandfather and father into the mining business. But Lew Douglas felt he had a mission in life. He got into politics and served three terms in the House (where he made a reputation for understanding Government finance) before President Roosevelt made him Director of the Budget in 1933. Hard-headed Lewis Douglas washed his hands of the budget when his boss refused to balance it, and turned into a first-line foe of the New Deal...
...their negative aspects, have been put into application with remorseless retroactivity. In at least two clear instances men of undisputed capacity as scholars and as teachers have been given terminating appointments on the sole ground that they have already served the University more than eight years and that the budget does not permit their present advance to permanent rank...