Word: budgeteers
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Economy, however small, was to have been one accomplishment of this session, and several appropriation bills actually were shaved to establish the principle of shrinking the Budget. But last week the vote-hungry House again liberalized the pension laws for World Warriors and their dependents, at a cost of $18,751,000 to start with, of hundreds of millions in future*-this year's prelude to a general World War pension bill scheduled for next year. And the Senate made a gesture even more expensive toward the farm vote. When economy-minded Senators proposed, in committee, to shave...
...Only Representative to say Nay among 361 voting on this measure was California's tousle-headed John Martin Costello, 36. † Last month the New York Legislature (Republicans) made a lump cut of $30,000,000 (about 10%) applicable throughout the Budget submitted by Governor Lehman, who last week, on the advice of his Attorney General, decided to let the measure become law, test its constitutionality in court...
...grey-haired 45-year-old who has the elemental political prerequisites. He was a farm boy, schoolteacher, lawyer, a notably honest utilities commissioner, an ab.e State attorney-general before he ran and won on last year's Republican upswell. He pared $3,000,000 from the last Davey budget, in turning out the Daveycrats he offended some politicos by holding Republican patronage within bounds. Every inch a Presidential prospect in his own mind, he is mortally afraid that indiscreet friends or canny enemies will boom him too soon, explode his chance to come up opportunely in the convention next...
Last week New York City's Board of Education prepared to dismiss 6,819 teachers, shut night schools, pare many another expense. Reason: Mayor Fiorello H. LaGuardia had cut the board's budget $3,000,000, and the State Legislature had cut another $5,300,000. As parents and teachers indignantly protested against "wrecking" of their school system, Manhattan's Borough President Stanley M. Isaacs dramatically demanded that the city's top school officials take a voluntary salary reduction of 5% to 10%, as had other city officials, including Mayor LaGuardia ($22,500), Park Commissioner Robert...
...wise: The second half of 1939 is expected to see Public Works expenditure decline from its 1938 volume of $880,000,000, offsetting by so much increased armament expenditures. If President Roosevelt decides to balance the budget for the 1940 elections the Government may actually put less money into the public economic pot after the rise in National Defense expenditures than before...