Word: budgeting
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...President's taciturnity. He was "obviously annoyed." It seemed for a time as if he might pound his fist. Then the Coolidge lips pursed themselves. From between them escaped "vitriolic sarcasm." Without raising his voice the President dealt scathingly with open and covert opponents of his debt funding and budget slashing plans...
...BUDGET...
Many fingers are crushed, many toes trod upon every year when the time comes for making out the Government's budget of expenditures. General Lord, Director of the Budget, is in the midst...
...paring the budget down to $3,080,000,000, Director Lord had planned a cut of $20,000,000 for the War Department. A number of Senators voiced a belief that this would be going too far, that military appropriations had already been cut to the bone. For the present year, the appropriation is $341,000,000, of which $262,000,000 is strictly military, $70,000,000 is for rivers and harbors and nearly $9,000,000 for the Panama Canal. If the cut comes out of Rivers and Harbors, many hankerers after local improvements must go unsatisfied...
...should take up birth control. It touches on the one side the liberties of women and on the other side the duty of the state to concern itself with the size of its population just as much as with the size of its army or the amount of the budget. With the use of one of the famed floating docks surrendered by Germany to Britain after the War, the 17th destroyer scuttled at Scapa Flow in June, 1919, by the Germans, was last week raised...