Word: budgets
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Budget officials, scanning these figures, noted that about half the increase is accounted for by emergency relief and studied the possibility of instituting a new economy program...
Since both the Catholic and Liberal parties have pledged themselves to maintain the belga on gold, Dr. Sap should have been popular among his colleagues. He balanced the budget last month, and, with Foreign Minister Henri Jaspar, rallied all the gold bloc countries to stand together at the Brussels Conference (TIME, Oct. 29). In the end, however, Dr. Sap's economies, imposed on each and every Minister, made him the Cabinet's Simon Legree. When, having already cut civil servants' salaries 24%, Dr. Sap insisted last week that he must cut them 5% more, the Cabinet resigned...
...conferred with Chairman Buchanan of the House Appropriations Committee and outlined a program to get the annual appropriation bills drafted in advance and put through Congress in short order. The Budget will be about the same size next year as this-7½ billions...
...only bulwark against the evils inherent in a bureaucracy so unprecedented as that now being formed in Washington. It must take a firm stand on the issues that confront the next Congress: inflation, the bonus, restoration of pay-cuts, greatly increased taxation, and the all-important budget...
...substantial business recovery can be logically anticipated until public confidence is restored by a definite program which aims towards a balanced budget and a stable monetary policy. In the depressions of the seventies and the nineties, much of the business stagnation could be definitely traced to the uncertainty of the monetary policy and the threat of inflation. When the government in those eras definitely settled the policies in favor of sound money, confidence was immediately established and an expanding industry paved the way to recovery and prosperity. It is this same uncertainty which paralyzes business today. It is this ghost...