Word: budgeting
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...domain of finances, a budget system was promptly enacted and put into operation, resulting in tremendous savings...
...undertaking to convince themselves and others that the chief issue of this campaign is honest government. In all my studies of political history, I cannot recall an Administration which was desirous of a dishonest and corrupt Government that, for the purpose of checking extravagance, ever undertook to introduce a budget system, to cut down taxes, to purge the payrolls, to make enormous reductions in the public debt and to lay firmer foundations; for the peace of the world...
...Economy. "I shall, if elected, welcome the opportunity to support and strengthen the beginnings which have been made in the direction of a national budget. We must have, in addition, an economy which consists not merely in securing a dollar's worth for every dollar spent, but that far less popular form of economy which imitates the prudent householder in doing without the things one wishes but cannot at the time afford. Economy, however, begins at the wrong end when it attacks the pay of government employes, who are justly entitled to pay equal to that they would receive from...
...measure by Chancellor of the Exchequer Reginald McKenna. British manufacturers were gloomy at the prospect of having to compete on an equal footing with Americans. Great loss of business was envisaged. The decision to repeal the duties was contained in Chancellor of the Exchequer Philip Snowden's budget (TIME...
...proper way possible. We will do our best to do that." The press was divided in its sentiments. The most pertinent comment came from "Londoner," who conducts a column, known as "Daily Causerie," in The Evening Standard. Said he: " Why not have Lloyd George introducing the people's budget in 1909 or Lord Birkenhead's first speech in Commons in 1906? Surely Miss Margaret Bondfield taking her seat on the front bench as the first woman member of the Government would-be an even better subject for painting. . . . "The whole business strikes me as a piece of preposterous...