Word: budgets
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...legitimate ground that Congress had never authorized this canal's construction. Last week Representatives were greatly surprised to find that President Roosevelt had dribbled out another $200,000 in relief funds to the canal, was evidently in a mood to dribble out a lot more from his extra-budget basket if Congress would not supply the cash...
...groups is World Peaceways, whose guiding spirit is a dynamic, blue-eyed, brown-haired grandmother named Mrs. Estelle Miller Sternberger. In Manhattan last week Mrs. Sternberger received the Jewish Forum's Albert Einstein Peace Award for her pacifist achievements over two decades. Operating on an annual $100,000 budget. World Peaceways puts its faith in free advertising. In FORTUNE two years ago appeared the first of a series of World Peaceways full-page ads, written by Bruce Barton. Now prepared by Young & Rubicam, the campaign has reached the point, projected several years ago, "where we would dare to introduce...
...Army officers are forbidden to recommend any appropriations not provided in the budget. At the time of General Hagood's testimony the budget had not, however, been prepared...
...William Mellon at the zenith of that statesman's fame as "The Greatest Secretary of the Treasury since Alexander Hamilton" would not be far off the mark. As Mr. Takahashi's son, who works in Manhattan, said last week, "Father was always trying to balance the Japanese budget even when we were still little children." Tall and vigorous, emphatically the Great Takahashi, this elder statesman leaped up from his wooden pillow as the mustards broke into his bedroom and shrilled bravely, "What are you trying...
Significance. The great Japanese statesmen killed or attacked last week were all models of moderation, budget-balancing, diplomatic conciliation and PEACE. The significance of the fact that they were attacked is to be found in the exact opposites of all they stood for. The significance is WAR. Neither attacked nor threatened was any "strong" or so-called "Fascist" Japanese. Their names began to appear only when Tokyo's smartest correspondents started guessing who was going to be the next Premier...