Word: budgeting
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...President was closeted for three hours with General H. M. Lord, Director of the Bureau of the Budget. In his budget speech last June, Mr. Coolidge had announced his determination to keep the next fiscal year appropriations at $3,200,000,000. Due chiefly to subsequent pension legislation, he was unable last week to cut the estimate below $3,270,000,000 even after blue-penciling $100,000,000 worth of proposals. The amount of the budget allowed for prohibition enforcement will be well over $30,000,000, last year's amount...
...Help us! Nothing justifies the uneasiness of our population. Never have we had so few unemployed. Antwerp has recovered full activity. Our crops are bountiful. . . . The budget is balanced, thanks to economy, and no new taxes will be needed on this score. In near future security can be restored...
...their search for characteristic poses, newspaper cartoonists last week might have pictured the chairman of the Senate Appropriations Committee with a budget book in his left hand, a batch of appropriation bills in his right, and his legs wrapped around an adding machine. Congress had left him to his mid-July pastime of reporting analytically on a fat $4,409,377,454.15, which is to nourish the Federal Government for the fiscal year...
Representative Madden (Republican of Illinois), chairman of the House Appropriations Committee, echoed cheers for President Coolidge's economy and "the faithful manner in which he has performed his duties under the budget law." Mr. Madden predicted a surplus in the Treasury for 1927, and showed how the Government was going to get rid of its four and a half bilbion...
...Parliament to assemble each September, under absolute compulsion to pass the budget within four months...