Word: budgets
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...slate, they nevertheless drew up an epistolary platform which contained, among other originalities, the declaration that the "national policy followed by this Administration ... is profoundly reactionary." The signatories to these sentiments were Woodrow Wilson's Wartime Secretary of War Newton Diehl Baker, Franklin Roosevelt's first Budget Director Lewis William Douglas and Leo Wolman, who served on Wilson's War Industries Board and on Roosevelt's first National Labor Board...
...traditional knowledge of British subjects that their civil servants are incorruptible was at stake last week as a verdict was handed down on the recent case in which part of Chancellor of the Exchequer Neville Chamberlain's new Budget leaked out in advance to speculators who made small killings by insuring with Lloyd's Underwriters against new and higher taxes (TIME, May 4 et seq.). Because the secrets thus disclosed in criminal violation of the Official Secrets Act were known to every Cabinet member, to high Treasury civil servants and even to Government printers, Britons last week awaited...
...persons mentioned or described was even in communication with any of those who effected insurance, and that no leakage from such a source was suggested. "The same observations apply to all Cabinet Ministers save J. H. Thomas and to all those persons to whom information as to the Budget was supplied before its publication to the House of Commons...
...Labor Daily Herald. "For comparison," boomed the Conservative Daily Express, "you need to [recall] the Stavisky Scandal in France and the United States Teapot Dome oil scandals, which dragged on for years." In editorials of modest understatement, Fleet Street reminded everyone that only six weeks had elapsed since the Budget leaked- another record for British Justice, swift & sure...
...catalogues, etc., and for re-binding worn out volumes. Of the total income of over a quarter million dollars, the University collects nickel fines from students to the extent of about $400 every year. It also has a constant expenditure for gas of $.53 encoded in this $341,000 budget...