Word: budgeteer
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...wheat have been bought by the Government in a single day, plus correspondingly gigantic purchases of sugar and whale oil. (The British lower classes can subsist indefinitely on bread and margarine-in which whale oil is a key ingredient.) What Sir John was really doing, as he "opened" the Budget last week, was unlocking the State secret that His Majesty's Government have craftily completed the first step necessary to prepare the Empire against immediate attack -i.e., for war (see p. 75). They have stocked their grocery shelves with enough edibles to feed British Islanders, according to Sir John...
Soak Everybody! Because the rich have been so drastically soaked for years in the United Kingdom (where many taxes are clearly confiscatory), Sir John Simon in effect made the keynote of his new Budget "Soak everybody...
Concession to Industry. Year ago the Budget of the then Chancellor of the Exchequer. Mr. Chamberlain, carried what afterward were considered clauses "tending to overtax the British munitions industry" or "soak the profiteers"-depending on one's point of view. Since nearly every country has laid plans to soak wartime profiteers, what proceeded to happen in London last week may be of wide significance. The new Simon Budget not only does not further soak any presumptive British profiteers but actually contains a clause enabling British industrialists to make such heavy charge-offs for "depreciation" that in effect industry received...
...likely to remain the rest of his undergraduate days. It might be observed parenthetically, however, that this last danger could be removed by intelligent examination. Other reforms which could improve the large survey courses include visitation, staff meetings, consultation hours, and more sections with more able instructors when the budget will permit...
Rose of the Rio Grande (Monogram) is foamy, small-budget beer to tease tastes jaded by cinema bubbly. Its frank melodrama is based on the Mexican border legend of a rough-riding Robin Hood of the last century whose caballeros jubilantly bedevil the inept soldiery, pink villains neatly through the heart, are never too preoccupied to sing a rousing song or chuck a cantina girl jovially under the chin...