Word: budgeting
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...House last week with a dinner and musicale for the Vice President and Cabinet. Pink and white chrysanthemums nodded benignly on the assembled guests: Vice President and Mrs. Dawes, all the members of the Cabinet and their ladies (except Secretary of the Interior and Mrs. Work), Director of the Budget and Mrs. Lord, the Assistant Secretary of the Interior, Mr. and Mrs. Henry White, Mr. Richard Washburn Child, Mr. and Mrs. John Hays Hammond, President and Mrs. James R. Angell of Yale, Mr. Frank A. Munsey, Mr. and Mrs. Frank W. Stearns, Mr. and Mrs. Charles H. Sabin, Mrs. Edward...
...arousing when Congress be- gan to question him about purchases for the A. E. .F. and he ejaculated, "Hell 'nd Maria, the Army was sent out to win the War, not to spend days haggling over pennies." He did some more arousing as the first Director of the Budget, when in 1921 he set to work hacking down Federal appropriations. Then the vice-presidency was shoved at him and he took it-and continued his arousing by making an opening speech to the Senate which made three-fourths of the senators...
...entered the Chamber in 1888, was its president from 1905 to 1906, and became a senator in 1912. In 1897 he was appointed Governor General of French Indo-China. From 1902 to 1904 he headed the Budget Commission. From 1921 to 1922 he was Finance Minister: also 1895-96. He is "self-made" and a bit vain of that fact; boasts that tobacco has never entered his system...
Premier Paul Painlevé's new fiscal measure, intended to balance the French budget by "a levy on all forms of wealth," (TIME, Nov. 9 el seq.) was got through the Finance Committee of the Chamber last week and presented to the deputies en masse...
...Premier shall rank next to the King at public functions, and enjoy a yearly honorarium on the budget of the State, the amount to be at the discretion of the King...