Word: budgets
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...three days, until the arrival of his first official visitor, care did not catch up with him. Representative James P. Buchanan, chairman of the House Appropriations Committee, and Director of the Budget Daniel Bell were to visit him to discuss the budget. For more than a fortnight the President had been combing the budget requests of his Cabinet officers, department by department. Word passed along that he wanted, if possible, at least $500,000,000 in cuts as a New Year's present for the country. Newshawks who reported that intention had been called in and told that they...
...committee this past year. Other joint applications were presented to the committee and approved for the next fiscal year. It is apparent that interest in joint research in the social sciences is growing and that the committee may expect such projects to form a growing proportion of its budget in future years...
...Government draws its breath of life from its finances, and it must balance income and expenditures if it expects to survive. It is my duty to see that the Government of the Commonwealth lives within its means and stands foursquare on a well-balanced budget. . . . We are among the least-taxed people in the world, and therefore when necessity arises we should be willing to accept the burden of increased taxation. ... I shan't fail...
...Some months ago I sent you my contribution for the current fiscal year, and in doing so stated that it would be my final annual gift to the unified budget of the Northern Baptist Convention. Hereafter, such sums as I may donate to general religious work, it is my present thought to contribute to specific projects, chiefly interdenominational or nondenominational in character, which interpret the Christian task in the light of present day needs and which are based not so much on denominational affiliation as on broad, forward-looking principles of cooperation...
...Ministers and Missionaries Benefit Board ($5,475.000), the American Baptist Home Mission Society ($5,475,000). In 1927 the Northern Baptist General Board of Promotion got $1,300,000. Mr. Rockefeller's growing feelings about interdenominational giving were reflected in his donations to the Baptist general budget. From $500,000 in 1928. these dropped to $400,000 in 1931, then dwindled by $100,000 a year to nothing in 1935. Mr. Rockefeller's Baptist gifts of record since 1923, plus the cost of the Riverside Church, plus $2,000,000 from the Laura Spelman Rockefeller Memorial for Missions...