Word: budgeting
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Home-Points from Premier Mussolini's speech at the presentation of departmental budgets to the Finance Minister, which was attended by a great display of military force both by the Army and the Fascista National Militia: " You may ask the reason for this great display of military strength. It is to show that the Government has armed forces at its disposal. ... It may happen, perchance, that armed forces may help some people to make up their minds. . . . We have solemnly promised to balance the State budget and this promise we must keep at all costs." A royal decree...
General Charles G. Dawes, who in 1921 organized the first national budget, has written a book: The First Year of the Budget of the United States...
Dawes insisted that as manager of the budget he was not to interfere with policy: " We have nothing to do with policy. Much as we love the President, if Congress, in its omnipotence over appropriations and in accordance with its authority over policy, passed a law that garbage should be put on the White House steps, it would be our regrettable duty, as a bureau, in an impartial, non-political and non-partisan way to advise the Executive and Congress as to how the largest amount of garbage could be spread in the most expeditious and economical manner...
Owing to the increase of taxation and the reduction in the cost of administration a net saving in the budget has been effected of 2,350,000,000,000 crowns ($33,000,000). As result of these economies the exchange has improved from about 75,000 to 71,500 crowns to the dollar. The Reparations Commission has agreed to assist the country's rehabilitation by waiving for 20 years all rights to Austrian revenues under the Treaty of St. Germain...
...money of sanguine rebels on the American side of the border. But peace, prosperity and human perfection are not to be expected all at once. The Mexican army, once given official recognition to distinguish it from the rest of the armed citizenry of the republic, and the war office budget have both been reduced materially in the last two years. Railroad trains no longer carry the bodyguard of regiments...