Word: budgeteer
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...improvement in economic conditions continues at the present rate," the President expects in fiscal 1939 to bring the budget completely into balance by beginning to pay off some of the national debt as required...
When Clerk Chaffee finished reading no Congressman who remained in the House needed to be told that this was the dullest budget message which Franklin Roosevelt had yet written, and no Congressman without studying the attached pages of exhibits-a volume the size of a small telephone book-could be expected to realize that the dullest message accompanied Franklin Roosevelt's most significant budget to date...
Portentous was his budget in 1933 cutting Government expenses by $360,000,000, his budget in 1934 proposing to spend $10,000,000,000 for priming the pump, his budget in 1935 asking a lump sum of $4,000,000,000 for him to spend as he wished on Relief, his budget in 1936 when he proclaimed, "Our policy is succeeding...
...deficit of today which is making possible the surplus of tomorrow." His budget last week was the thing of which all the others had been portents, a picture of U. S. finances not in process of change but as changed, of the new fiscal situation brought about by four years of the New Deal...
...increased costs of government. . . . The cost of new functions and duties can be substantially reduced only by curtailing the function or the duty." So wrote the President last week. Before Depression the War and Navy Departments together spent in a typical year about $700,000,000. The 1938 budget provided $981,000,000 for national defense...