Word: budgeting
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Cambridge Trust Company complained particularly of counterchecks. Large numbers of them are written hurriedly, cashed, and then completely and serenely forgotten. Only one case strictly beyond accepted ethical standards was cited. That was an emergency budget measure adopted by a Harvard student last year. After he had boldly written checks until the bank was swamped, he came in with a handful of them, marked "No Funds," and declared that they were forgeries. A couple of days in jail however convinced him that he must have written them after all, and he confessed...
...President ordered Brigadier General Lord, Director of the Budget, to investigate whether the Navy and the Shipping Board had any suitable vessels available for capturing rum runners...
...real reason for the fall is that the French budget is in a very unsatisfactory condition. Although the ordinary budget has been balanced by a transfer from the "extraordinary budget," the actual deficit for last year in the profit and loss account of the French Treasury was stated to be 23,000,000,000 francs. This was, of course, largely for reconstruction work in the devastated areas and the money was, or has to be, found by another issuance of government bonds. Thus it was said that "95% of the assets of the Bank of France are obligations...
...Coolidges took a six-hour cruise on the Potomac aboard the Mayflower. The guests included Secretary and Mrs. Denby, Assistant Postmaster General Bartlett and Mrs. Bartlett, former Senator and Mrs. McCumber, Representative Kahn of California and Mrs. Kahn, Mrs. Alice Roosevelt Longworth, Director of the Budget and Mrs. Lord, Mr. and Mrs. Frank W. Stearns...
...Budget. According to the report adopted by the Senate (TIME, June 25) the figures for 1923 were...