Word: budgeteers
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...experts back in Washington, vacationing Franklin Roosevelt left further work on the Budget last week, and further study of the big new ingredient of his Fourth New Deal: rearmament. For him this visit to Warm Springs, Ga. was to be real relaxation, real "play." He swam in the warm pool, drove his car through the hills and forests, held an open-air press conference. He carved a Thanksgiving turkey for fellow paralysis patients, singled out Eddie Cantor's Thanksgiving greeting to read aloud: "I am grateful that I live in a country where all leaders can sit down...
...judges have had to look for money to the Department of Justice, whose fiscal 1938 budget includes some $18,000,000 for the Judiciary. Since the Department has more cases in those courts than any other agency or person, judges and lawyers alike have long felt there was something vaguely improper about this procedure. Chief Justice Charles Evans Hughes was for a bill introduced in the last Congress to set up a separate court budget. Then he reconsidered, quashed the measure. What gave him pause was the awful thought that a comptroller appointed by him might some day turn crook...
...denies that college football is a moneymaker and cites, as example, an institution "that was the country's most sensational football college." Last year, he says, when it was sold at auction and bought by bondholders, it was discovered that it was running $72,000 a year behind its budget...
...eyes of libertarians, who sniffed at the idea that T. C. (current budget: $3,865,000) could not afford this experiment, New College was to be liquidated for too keen an interest in contemporary social problems. Teachers and students also charged that Dean Russell had consulted only his trustees and administrative officers, undemocratically ignored the faculty...
...illustrates his idea of the publisher's duty to his readership. To millions of English "small-means men" and their families, it is the most appealing kind of publishing. Some of the latest copies of the Express to reach the U. S. were filled with their usual budget of post-crisis news: the Vicar of Southwold had seen a genuine sea monster offshore, a dog was tried for biting a dustman, a Wiltshire schoolmistress had found a mushroom over eleven inches wide. And across an entire page the Express splashed a row of grinning British faces, exhorted...