Word: budgets
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Sounding very much like a Republican candidate on the stump Mr. Strawn wanted the Democratic President to: 1) balance the budget; 2) stop trying to "spend our way to prosperity"; 3) hold relief expenditures down to the minimum; 4) announce that the emergency is over; 5 ) request no more emergency legislation; 6) stop tinkering the dollar...
...Building open for a longer period each day in order to make up for the loss of facilities caused by shutting Hemenway, but a large saving is expected by preventing the overlapping of activities and building upkeep costs which at present cost the H.A.A. several thousand dollars in each budget...
...proposal to close the Hemenway Gymnasium next year, in order to help balance the budget of the Athletic Association, will be submitted to the budget meeting a week from Wednesday and it is expected that it will be approved by the Corporation without opposition...
Rank on rank, Fascist crowds piled into the spacious Piazza Venezia last week to honor the 2687th birthday of Rome. Nervous after an exhausting week in which he had endeavored to balance Italy's lopsided budget by cutting government salaries from 6% to 12%, ordering rents and the prices in government-controlled stores reduced from 12% to 15%, and raising bachelors' income taxes 10% and 25%, Benito Mussolini strode to the balcony to make a speech...
...hosts, like a cloud of grasshoppers." Astute questioning by Senator Austin forced him to admit that at a meeting with airmail contractors last autumn-a meeting not unlike the "spoils conferences" which cost them their contracts-he had sought their "advice and consent" before cutting appropriations under a reduced budget. It was, he thought, the "wise and decent thing to do." Of mail operations under the Brown regime he said: "It was a very high record of service and I wanted to continue...