Word: budgeting
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...That a budget system is necessary to the financial stability of the government, and that it is essential to the restoration of the country to normal conditions was the statement given out by the Honorable William M. Calder, United States Senator from New York, to a CRIMSON reporter recently. Mr. Calder, who is now in his third year of service in the Senate, is one of the leaders of political thought in the state, and chairman of the Committee to Audit and Control the Contingent Expenses of the Senate...
...plan of assessing real estate for purposes of taxation and is regarded as one of the foremost American authorities on the financial affairs of cities. He will also speak to the members of Government 17 on Thursday of this week, dealing at that time with the subject of "Municipal Budget Making." These lectures are made possible through the generosity of Mr. Frank Graham Thomson...
...State Tax Commission of three experts has taken its place. The haphazard method of making appropriations by the legislature, with each institution and department asking for what it thought it could get and the legislature appropriating what it pleased, has been done away with and a satisfactory budget system is now used in making all appropriations...
...national expenditures. We are now thinking of government expenses in terms of billions instead of millions; we should think in terms of millions rather than billions. We want to get rid of our army of unemployed; get back to an economical system of administration. We should build up a budget system, to be prepared by or under the direction of the President, which contains estimates of all departments. The present system is very unsound. I had four years experience in trying to get appropriations for the army, and you go before various committees and make your requests before many different...
...today is not the Liberal of tomorrow--that, I take it, as a matter of individual psychology. But it would be sheer nonsense to deny that the radical principles (Radicalism) of today are the liberal principles (Liberalism) of tomorrow. The England that tore its hair at the Lloyd George Budget of 1909 would today accept the like as quite a matter of course...