Word: budgeteer
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...last week Franklin Roosevelt issued a call to his first-line spending lieutenants: Senate Majority Leader Alben Barkley and House Leader Sam Rayburn, fresh from his humiliation over the failure of the Reorganization Bill, Works Progress Administrator Harry Hopkins, Acting Budget Director Daniel W. Bell, Chairman Carter Glass of the Senate Appropriations Committee and Chairman Edward T. Taylor of the House Appropriations Committee. These met for a White House conference this week. Meantime, Congressional spadework and broad hints by the President in his press conferences and elsewhere during the week had roughed in the three sums to be provided...
...gaunt camel was too weak to get up off its knees. Said Manager William J. Richards, who had worked a year without salary to make ends meet: "The flood was what broke the camel's back. . . . We don't need to balance our budget. We need a balance to budget...
Sailing Along (Gaumont British) stars England's top singer and dancer, Jessie Matthews, in a jarring $900,000 blend of inexpensive, landscapy charm and budget-eating, Hollywood-inspired bandbox décor. In the ginghamy raiment of a river barge waif, Actress Matthews' sturdy, bike-legged nimbleness seems to belie her Cockney wispyness. But squired to proper-dance frocks and slippers and a fancy stage career by Soup Magnate Roland Young. she dances dainty duos with the U. S.'s Jack Whiting, sings her way to a typical cinemusical fadeout...
Messrs. Gasque and Rankin and their committees are men dedicated to any & every proposal to pay more money to anyone who wore a uniform, even though the bill for veterans' benefits already tots up to $600,000,000 each year (about 8% of the budget). Franklin Roosevelt pays both groups plenty of attention, for it was they who led the fight and passed the $2,000,000,000 Bonus over his veto...
Fools for Scandal (Warner Bros.) cost $900,000, of which harum-scarum Actress Carole Lombard got $150,000, Belgian-born Actor Fernand Gravet $50,000. Less of a drain on the budget was the $25 a day paid for several weeks to cafe society's No. 1 hitchhiker, "Prince" Mike Romanoff (real name: Harry Gerguson). Actor Gravet got his first Hollywood job (The King and the Chorus Girl) year and a half ago because Producer-Director Mervyn LeRoy thought he resembled Edward VIII. Prince Mike got his because there is no one Hollywood appreciates more than a persistent pretender...