Word: budgeteer
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...LaGuardia was elected he found himself in charge of a city which had a debt of $1,800,000,000, about 50% greater than the public debt of the U. S. when he was elected to Congress in 1916. He found a city accustomed to living on an annual budget of $600,000,000. Tammany in election year had cut the budget to $551,000,000, but it was still $30,000,000 out of balance and when Mr. LaGuardia stepped in he found that Tammany had reduced the apparent size of the budget by simply omitting such items...
...although undoubtedly they prefer the new Chautemps Cabinet to its predecessor. On international exchange the franc moved down slightly to 27 for $1, its lowest in nearly eleven years. As M. Bonnet continued to work 14-hour days, slashing expenditures and upping revenue in efforts to balance the Extraordinary Budget-he claims to have already balanced the Ordinary Budget-he prom-ised to leave untouched three and a half billions ($129,500,000) earmarked to be spent on job-making public works...
...since. When the bondholders' committee, formed under the chairmanship of Frederic F. Janney of Dean, Witter & Co. which floated the issue, installed their own Comptroller James Everett Butler to supervise the college accounts, he found that St. Mary's was running $72,000 a year behind its budget. The bondholders were more surprised to learn that football expenses were almost equal to football income...
Then President Lebrun summoned Leon Blum's Chautemps Cabinet to sit as a formal Council of Ministers and approved decrees flashing every ministerial budget save that of the Defense. Upped was France's Defense budget by $411,675,000. Free-spending Emile Labeyrie resigned as governor of the Bank of France. Conservative Vice Governor Pierre Fournier took his place. The Bank revalued its gold stocks up by $299,400,000. U. S. tourists were able to get three centimes less for every dollar they exchanged...
...three years ago from a professorship at Princeton's School of Public & International Affairs to succeed President Harry Augustus Garfield, son of the 20th President of the U. S., he was shocked to find that his small, patrician college was piling up steady deficits. President Dennett installed a budget system, launched a money-raising program for Williams' library, laboratories, teachers' salaries, scholarships. But he found 73-year-old Senior Trustee Warren, who commutes 140 mi. to Williamstown from his Boston office, interested not only in Williams but in Williamstown. This spring when the Greylock Hotel...