Word: budgeteers
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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With these major changes in the President's fiscal philosophy as a background, the President's budget supplied details for the immediate future...
Rearmament. National defense expenditures averaged $782,000,000 in the last five years, came to $1,017,000,000 for fiscal 1939. For purely military uses. Franklin Roosevelt's regular budget last week included only $510,000,000 for the Army, but upped Navy $161,000,000 (mostly for starting two new battleships, two cruisers, eight destroyers, etc.) to a whopping $720,000,000. His big news on Rearmament was that he would this week ask Congress in a supplementary message for some $500,000,000 more. Biggest item...
Relief. Following the budget message the President asked Congress for an $875,000,000 deficiency appropriation to carry WPA through next June. This will bring fiscal 1939's WPA cost to about $2,300,000,000. For fiscal 1940 the budget calls for $2,019,000,000 to be allocated between WPA and other relief agencies...
...Republican candidates in many States, as it is in Washington for anti-New Dealers, Economy was Julius Heil's campaign watchword. After getting elected, with a working majority in both houses of the Legislature, he sat down to draft his budget. State government cost Wisconsin $71,600,000 during the last two years. Governor-elect Heil said he was going to cut that 15 or 20% for the next biennium...
Businessman Heil began budget hearings in a mood of high scorn for the incompetence and extravagance of public officials. He asked President Clarence A. Dykstra (pronounced dike´-struh) of the University of Wisconsin-formerly Cincinnati's efficient city manager, with whom Governor La Follette replaced Republican Dr. Glenn Frank-for a breakdown showing the cost-per-student of each department in the university. He said that in his business, when a department was found inefficient, it was discontinued. Said he, "I want to know if there is a cancerous growth, and if there is, I want to cure...