Word: budgeting
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Harriman, etc. ¶ The President called a meeting of the "Government's business organization" (a body of Government executives first called together by President Harding some two and a half years ago), and urged continued and greater economy in the Administration, pointing out that under the new budget submitted to Congress last month there will have to be drastic retrenchment...
...Committee, under the chairmanship of General Charles G. Dawes, which is examining German finances with a view to stabilizing the exchange and rehabilitating the budget, experienced its first week of work...
...best remembered in England for his application of the "axe," with which he pared down the budget...
...square miles. The capital is Vaduz, where, it is said, cows graze in the main streets. Until 1868 the Principality maintained an army of 91, but in that year the army was abolished. The population, mostly of German extraction and Catholic in religion, is about 11,000. The budget in 1922 was balanced at 384,500 Swiss francs ($66,441), and there is no public debt. The language was formerly Romonsch (dialect of the old Roman Empire), but is now German with only a few traces of the Romance...
Such a thought was intolerable to French men and women. But the core of the apple of dissension was, and is still, the financial situation. France had concluded that Germany would pay reparations ; accordingly, the loans and the charges thereon were placed to the debit side of a recoverable budget-recoverable from Germany. The best part of the gigantic public debt is held by the French people, by the small-investor, for capital there is well distributed...