Word: budgets
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Said the President's release: "This decision of the Congress will . . . constitute an additional charge on the Government of $16,000,000. It should be noted that this sum was not contained in the budget estimates and that consideration should properly be given to methods by which Government revenues can be increased to meet this and any other new appropriations which tend to throw the regular budget out of balance...
...words come from Calvin Coolidge no one would have been startled. From Franklin Roosevelt who is seeking a $4.000,000,000 work relief appropriation-outside the budget-they sounded mildly grotesque. But they meant two things...
...only at Michigan but in many another state this month universities have been wrangling with legislatures to re-store prosperity budgets. Encouraging to pedagogs was the experience of one of the hardest hit institutions, the University of North Carolina. Governor Ehringhaus had recommended that that University be held to a budget some 40% below that of 1928. Last fortnight the University's small, able President Frank Porter Graham, who calls more North Carolinians by their first names than anyone else in the State, made a personal appeal for a 25% increase, told legislators that his University was "reaching...
...session of the Japanese Diet's Budget Committee, the War Minister was faced with this question: "Is it true that our Minister of Communications, His Excellency Takejiro Tokonami, took a bribe of 500,000 yuan in 1928 from the Manchurian War Lord Chang Hsueh-liang...
...matrices (type molds) for zeros as there are for the letter "e." Ordinarily that supply is ample for run-of-mill newspaper copy. But since the New Deal, newspaper copy has been anything but ordinary. It deals glibly in millions, billions of Federal appropriations, relief expenditures, debts, tax receipts, budget estimates. A dozen lines of a Washington dispatch may contain close to 100 ciphers...