Word: budgeteer
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...H.A.A. budget shows larger surplus than last year...
...week Government services were being supplied with oil by the Government-owned Petromex, whose employes do not enjoy the legal right to strike. But with about $60,000 a day in oil taxes being nicked from his budget, Labor-loving President Lázaro Cárdenas finally persuaded the strikers to go back to work, let a Federal conciliation board hammer out a settlement...
...President Illas did resign and the Senate went back to work. Elected as his successor, on the potent recommendation of Army Boss Fulgencio Batista, was Liberal Senator Lucilo de la Pena. Promptly Colonel Batista sent his mouthpiece President Federico Laredo Bru to Congress with a whopping $78,856,000 budget, $21,000,000 of which is reserved for Boss Batista's Army...
...budget, explained old President Laredo Bru, will leave Cuba with a $9,400,000 deficit, necessitating new taxes. The President proposed a tax of 1? a gallon on exported molasses, to bring in $1,600,000 yearly, a 5% tax on the gross product of mines, a tax on sugar used by national industries. A "forcible bill of exchange" for all credit sales, costing up to $200 on a transaction involving $50,000, would yield another $1,000,000, and a 5% tax on capital leaving the island $1,100,000 more. Biggest boost was suggested...
...return, even onetime (1925-33) President Gerardo ("The Butcher") Machado, now in Montreal where his secretary announced he would be likely to stay. If this move was calculated to throw a scare into Boss Batista's restive Congress it worked too well, for the Senators immediately forgot the budget to shriek that soon Havana would be full of dangerous scalawags and cutthroats, to say nothing of political enemies...