Word: budgeting
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Since the Government has put in a budget system there have been eleven regular (usually semiannual) meetings of the Federal "business" organization. The new Lincoln took the President to speak before the twelfth. His keynote: "What needs to be done should be done." Extracts...
...that extent are we adding to our military preparedness. . . . What we need, and all that we need, for national protection is adequate preparedness. I am for adequate military preparedness. It is a question which I always give the most serious thought in my recommendations to the Congress in the budget message. As Commander in Chief of the Army and of the Navy, the Chief Executive of this nation has an emphatic responsibility for this phase of our welfare. As a nation we are advocates of peace...
Spending Money. "It is significant that the Congress has not granted the total amount requested in any single budget. It is pleasurable and easy to give. It is difficult to withhold. If the Treasury vaults were thrown open and its accumulated capital drawn upon until not a dollar were left, even then would we not be able to satisfy the demands that probably would be made from various groups and from various localities. And who will say that these demands may not "have justification? Projects that eventually will be resolved into completed works, purposes and policies that in time...
...will be held on February 26, the University Debating team will meet the Brown and Wesleyan orators in the first triangular clash of the season. The question for discussion is "Resolved: That this Louse approves the recommendations of President Coolidge in regard to naval construction as contained in his budget message of December...
...Charles Pelot Summerall, Chief of Staff, told the House Military Affairs Committee that the Army food rations were lower than those of convicts in Federal prisons. The soldier gets only one good meal a day, he said. Secretary of War Dwight Filley Davis added that President Coolidge and the Budget Bureau were responsible for the Army's meagre diet. Hearing these words and many others, the House Military Affairs Committee set about to expand the War Department appropriation bill. It increased the daily food ration five cents per day (a total recommendation of $2,167,187); it provided...