Word: budgets
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Familiar-sounding facts presented once more to its public by Schoolmart and Schoolview last week: 3,000,000 children were denied schooling last winter; 1,000 schools closed; the nation's education budget was pared from two and one-quarter billions to one and three-quarters; one-quarter of the country's 247,000 public schools need modernizing. But pedagogs have taken hope. In 37 States school building has leaped 700%-$34,000,000 in the first quarter of this year as against less than $5,000,000 in the same period in 1933. And from Washington last...
...President's one budget of unqualifiedly good news came from the smiling faces of Roosevelts, of his son James who had flown to meet him, of his wife Eleanor who had just completed several weeks of incognito motoring through the Pacific States. She had secretly spent five days at Pyramid Lake, Nev. and was able to report that Daughter Anna was well, had successfully got her divorce with a minimum of publicity, that his grandchildren, "Sistie" and "Buzzie", were happily seeing the Chicago Fair with "Popsie" Dall...
...venerable Scottish distiller, who makes 70% of Britain's whiskey, could not restrain himself from expressing astonishment that the U. S. Government, "which still has an unbalanced budget," taxes its domestic spirits only $2 per gal., against Britain's tax of 72 shillings sixpence...
...confidence in your wisdom and your love of France. When I began my labors last February interior and exterior peace was threatened. To avert immediate danger we were forced to the recourse of extraordinary parliamentary procedure. [Gastounet forced Chamber and Senate to vote him power to put through the budget by decree] Thanks to Parliament we have balanced the budget; effected fiscal reforms; so improved our trade position that since March 1 500 million francs in gold have entered France. We have averted the danger of inflation and consequent bank closings. Because we have restored the health of the State...
...Budget Director Lewis Douglas: For those who seek a career in Government . . . personal fortune must be forgotten, nor should personal power...