Word: budgets
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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This year there is another danger. The Senate added to the Independent Offices bill a juicy amendment for $354,000,000 for veterans' pensions and pay cut restorations, a sum that would upset the President's well-laid budget plans. Last week Representatives were jubilating at the chance of accepting the Senate's amendment...
...Carl Vinson. Chairman of the House Naval Affairs Committee. Washington's two Senators tacked on amendments, one to allow Pacific Coast shipyards to bid on the new ships with transportation costs considered, the other to build 25% of the airplanes in government plants. Great Britain- The biggest Navy budget since 1928 was presented to the House of Commons by Sir Bolton Meredith Eyres Monsell. First Lord of the Admiralty. Cost: ?56,550.000 ($287,274,000), or $15,158,400 more than last year. New ships: four cruisers, one aircraft carrier, nine destroyers, three submarines, many a small craft. France...
...late more & more Chapin girls are preparing for college, chiefly Vassar and Bryn Mawr, but most still take a general course. Here daughters and wives of Morgans, Rockefellers, Pratts, Flaglers, Vanderbilts and Cabots have learned to invest and handle trust funds, budget and manage three households and platoons of servants...
...Treasury is this week quite happy over the way preliminary tax receipts are coming in. There is every evidence that receipts will come up to the schedule marked out. But of course there is no thought that receipts will be sufficient to balance the budget as a whole. The carrying of a deficit of $4,300,000,000 is an unprecedented ask for Federal credit, but the refinancing operations have thus far proceeded satisfactorily and, with the diminished amount needed this fiscal year, unquestionably the flotation of longer issues to absorb the maturing short term indebtedness will continue...
...layman doesn't realize that most of his money is being held this way. He gives to a budget and supposes that if reductions are necessary they will be made proportionately on all items, not on missions alone. ... In some cases the bishops have failed to send their share. What isn't held back by the priest is kept by the bishop. The deep shame of keeping the money lies in the fact that there is no one to protest, to the hurt of men and women who trust us out in the far corners of the world...