Word: budgets
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...party of four M.P.'s,† decided that what Britons want today is "The New Deal." In a rousing speech at Bangor, where stanch Welsh neighbors can always be counted on to roar approval, Orator Lloyd George proposed to apply to Britain substantially the Roosevelt remedies (including a budget unbalanced by colossal public works) and appealed for support from all parties...
...more business giving away news than the newspapers would have giving away shirts as circulation gifts. Yet they were in no position to declare war on Kaufmann's since the store was a bountiful advertiser and had made no move to reduce its newspaper budget because of radio expense. Instead the publishers fired protests at the Press-Radio committee which restrained them from broadcasting news themselves. Hearst's Sun-Telegraph was reported to have filed formal notice with the other publishers that, beginning Feb. 1, it would consider itself free to broadcast as much news as it cared...
Wisconsin. Beginning his second term as Governor but his first as a Progressive, Philip Fox La Follette asked his Legislature to up the State's 1935-37 budget by nearly $17,000,000. Objects: school aid, old age pensions, shorter hours and higher pay for State employes...
...tutorial costs very considerably. Just what the economics would come to cannot be stated with any degree of accuracy. There are too many indeterminate factors. Perhaps, however, it would not be unreasonable to estimate a reduction of from $75,000 to $100,000 in the present tutorial budget. The chief saving of money would of course come about through a saving of the time of tutors. Fewer tutors would therefore be needed than are employed at present. Only the best of them would be retained; and, without raising a penny of new money, the University would then be able...
Little Costa Rica is unique in having the biggest proportion of pure-blooded Spaniards, the most peaceful history, the smallest army budget, one of the oldest constitutions and biggest school budgets in Latin America. No less remarkable is Costa Rica's President, Ricardo ("Don Ricardo") Jiménez y Oreamuno, 75, son & grandson of Costa Rican Presidents, three times President himself and year in & year out the most popular man in the country. Once he bailed out a man who had defamed him, saying: "Let no one be imprisoned for anything he may say about...