Word: budgeteers
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...precise moment that the President held the fateful slip of paper in his hands, his annual budget message was being droned aloud by Reading Clerks in Congress (see p. 11). No longer, however, did the figures of that budget total up as they had totaled when he gave it a last pat of approval and dispatched it to the Capitol. The Supreme Court's 6-to-3 decision had rendered the $547,000,000 worth of processing taxes, on which the President had counted, nothing more than a row of nine ciphers. Because no one yet knew how many...
...days beiore, the President had had 100 newshawks into his Executive Office for a two-hour explanatory session on the Budget. Budget Director Bell sat beside him as prompter while Secretary Morgenthau lolled silently on a couch. Looking for "jokers" the correspondents asked searching questions to which the President would sometimes answer "Yes," the Budget Director "No."' After consultation Director Bell's answer was generally chosen as the correct interpretation for the Press...
...Federal revenues was falling further and further below the line of Federal expenditures, with a widening deficit between them. Then, said Franklin Roosevelt, he decided to do something courageous, to turn the line of Federal expenditures upward in hope that Federal revenues would also rise. They did and the Budget for fiscal 1937 was his crowning achievement, showing the line of revenues rising closer & closer to expenditures...
...Flint, Mich, at $15,000. In 1931 Dallas hired him away for $16,500, which he proceeded to earn by saving the city $1,426,000 in operating expenses in the next three years. Last year he went on the Federal payroll as Assistant Di- rector of the Budget. Toledo gets...
When Mrs. Hoe took the family troubles to a sympathetic newspaperwoman, whose job it was to put the bee of budget-keeping in her readers' bonnets, she got good advice free, paid by not taking it. Then unsympathetic reality began to crack down. Dallas flunked out of high school, wasted a lot of time trying to win a $10,000-prize competition, settled unwillingly to a job as chauffeur to his best girl's father. Sythia's grandmother sacrificed part of her funeral money to divert the "career" into a more appropriate job in a beauty parlor...