Word: budgets
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...President had been working on his budget message and his address on the State of the Union until 1:30 the night before, but as he sat at his desk after luncheon he gave no hint of fatigue. The telephone rang, and when he lifted the instrument he could hear the soft Arkansas drawl of Senate Democratic Leader Robinson...
...That night the President did what no President had done within the memory of the oldest White House attache. He called some 35 Washington correspondents to his study. Like a football coach going through skull practice with the squad, he read the budget message he was to send to Congress next day. Then he answered the questions of his digit-dazed friends. The reward of the President's patience was a uniform and intelligent presentation to the public through the Press of his two-year $17,000,000,000 budgets...
...after his budget message, President Roosevelt was host at luncheon to silvery-whiskered Senator J. Hamilton Lewis, Democratic whip. How soon, asked the President, could Congressional business be attended to? By May 15? Illinois' Lewis thought not before July...
...Unnecessary Congressional spending was also President Roosevelt's concern. So he called in members of the House Appropriations Committee and subcommittees, who promised they would get right to work passing the necessary bills to provide the required budget billions. Still a little shocked at the budget's size, they heartily agreed that further expenditure would be undesirable...
Just why the United States with its unbalanced budget should blame other nations for their unbalanced budgets is not explained officially. But the belief is growing that the real reason for delay in stabilization has not been given out and that it refers entirely to the legal snags that have been encountered in handling the gold profit...