Word: budgets
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...economic advice when succeeding Republican Presidents asked it. His free advice is still available when Franklin Roosevelt wishes it, but that is not often now, for Baruch opposed abandoning the gold standard ("Make no mistake about it: abandoning the gold standard is cheating."); opposes huge public expenditures ; favors a budget balanced more than in a bookkeeping sense...
...Harvard education. He has repulsed the first by appointing John Wilbur Lowes, a man of practical experience, to a new post, that of financial Vice-President. This is a happy augury for the future. The second problem, which in spite of idealism depends directly on a balanced budget, has raised more complicated questions. The President has not before him the high purpose of making Harvard a place where any man, regardless of wealth or social position, can achieve an education. In other words, Harvard is to be a place for scholars...
...hours of clamorous debate, the assembly voted that members of the independent board must sever their connections with it, desist from soliciting funds and cease from usurping official authority-or else be disciplined by their presbyteries. Confident of increased prosperity this year, the Presbyterian Finance Committee upped its benevolence budget to $8,000,000 in expectation of $2,000,000 more than was received last year. Star guest speaker at the Presbyterian assembly was Secretary of the Interior Ickes, a good Presbyterian, who reviewed the social objectives of the New Deal, pictured them as identical with those of Christianity...
...manifestos to the King, got his signatures, shot them at the public. By noon that day the streets were again empty of soldiers. The decrees promised: 1) Fewer ministers and public employes at lower salaries. 2) Stable municipal organizations with mayors appointed by the Government. 3) A balanced budget and creation of new sources of revenue. 4) Easier credit for farmers and artisans. 5) Lower prices and new markets. 6) Unemployment relief and restriction of child labor. 7) More education for the education-hungry Bulgarians. 8) Shorter and cheaper trials. 9) Recognition of Soviet Russia. 10) Redivision of Bulgaria into...
...Diocese of Southern Ohio last week sprang fresh hope for the Episcopal budget. There a group of laymen were crying "Hold the Line" and organizing to raise money for their church in a highly businesslike manner. Their object was not only to raise $500,000 and present it to the triennial General Convention of their Church next October, but to do something that the Church has never before succeeded in doing-develop a strong organization among its half a million adult males...