Word: budgets
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Time came and time went, but Cerberus remainded. At length the owner arrived to claim the dog. Add one item to the H.A.A.'s budget--fifty cents for a can of Roach's flea-powder...
...Forthwith he denied that he and Senator Bulkley had talked about anything except Ohio politics. Any impression that he and the President had talked about dollar devaluation was "entirely in error." declared Turnquote Bulkley. His White House mission had been solely to promote Representative Charles West of Ohio for budget director...
...many years ago Papa Cheron used to play the guitar while the "Little Flower," St. Therese of Lisieux, sang hymns. As Finance Minister in the successive ministries of Poincare, Briand, Tardieu, he helped to keep the franc stabilized after the crucial days of 1926-27, and left with a budget surplus of 19,000,000,000 francs. But ending inflation was a simple matter compared with cleaning up l'Affaire Stavisky. Frenchmen have forgotten about St. Therese and the budget of 1930. They only remember that the greatest political scandal since the War has not been explained nor have...
...officers, both poor and oldfashioned, unite in hating all that Westernization has brought Japan except the guns. They hate democracy, free capitalism, politics, graft, social unrest. Without claiming to know much about economics, they feel that Japan could have both low taxes for farmers and a huge defense budget. Let the Emperor bleed the capitalists! Last week with conspiratorial secrecy, the officers rushed through the Government presses 160,000 copies of a pamphlet entitled The Basic Principles of National Defense and Proposals for Strengthening It. Conceivable in no country save Japan, it was simply an attack on Japan...
...above). Its chief "proposal" was an impassioned sales talk for the Army's pet system of State Capitalism. "Japan's economic system," it harangued, "creates class differences, enables the few to hoard wealth, causes poverty and unemployment, and . . . seriously restricts the national budget so that even the most vital needs of national defense are not attainable. ... It is desirable for the people to abandon the selfish, individualistic economic sense, to awaken to moral principles and to hasten to establish an economy embodying the Empire's ideals [i. e., a military dictatorship]. The military . . . would cultivate the spirit...