Word: budgeting
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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There was "old Colonel Mulberry Sellers." Nominee Smith used him constantly. Example: "General Lord [of the budget bureau] holds up the data in his hand like this, and in the manner of Colonel Sellers who said: 'Nine million people in Africa have sore eyes. Buy this little package' he says. 'By our industry we have saved...
...State Department may impair the whole arrangement by sternly advising U. S. financiers not to absorb the German bonds. For another thing Great Britain is known to be tolerably well pleased by the Reparations status quo; and Chancellor Churchill in particular has displayed reluctance to readjust his precariously balanced budget on the basis of a new arrangement with Germany...
Annually a reserve is set aside for the repair and alteration of the various University buildings, a reserve which is calculated to approximate the total cost. Last year the largest reserve budget, next to that of the College, was set aside for the maintenance of the Business School, the sum amounting to $38,600. Next to that in the descending scale of upkeep expenditures came the Medical School plant with $22,500.; the University buildings--University Hall, Lehman Hall, and other non-departmental structures--with $9900., and the Athletic Association with...
Next he quoted President Coolidge's speech last June to the Bureau of the Budget, in which President Coolidge explained that an Administration is not obliged to furnish the people with Prosperity, but with "every fair opportunity" for Prosperity, which the people furnished themselves...
...said: "The purpose of the tariff is not to balance the books of business corporations, but to safeguard the family budget. ... It has become the funda¬mental safeguard of the American work¬man and the American farmer . . . A retreat to the Underwood tariff scheduless on farm produce would ruin millions of our farmers todayo...