Word: budgeteers
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...extolled, and foreign countries defied, whenever economic pressures increase. As the food shortage grows more serious in Rome, also do the "victory songs" grow louder and Italian medicinemen beat the tom-toms of hate and self-adulation with increasing gusto. Mussolini is faced with increased living costs, an unbalanced budget, a shortage and an upset foreign trade, and he has realized that only by playing on the passions of his Latin populace can he divert its minds from dwelling upon its economic position or physical sufferings...
...last week in the House of Commons and fired what sounded like the starting gun of a gigantic world naval race. Ostensibly he was merely asking the Commons to vote an additional $51,500,000 for 1936 naval expenditures to supplement the $345,000,000 already provided in the Budget. Sobering naval news went with the request...
...Chancellor of the Exchequer not mention our War debt to the United States?" snapped William Mabane, M.P. "This is the first time it has been ignored in a budget speech...
...Next day Chancellor Chamberlain told the Commons that he had asked the great underwriting house of Lloyds to investigate rumors of a leak. Whether on inside information or guesswork, last-minute gamblers were supposed to have collected some $500,000 of insurance against last week's budget increases...
...Announcing his budget two years ago, Chancellor Chamberlain had quipped: "Great Britain has now finished Bleak House and is sitting down to enjoy the first chapter of Great Expectations" (TIME, April...