Word: budgets
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...least one white rabbit a year out of his fine high hat was produced by Franklin Roosevelt in the first five years of his Administration, to solve and save the U. S. economy. For his sixth year, with some 11,000,000 workers still jobless, the Budget still reeling, the President appeared to have lost his urge for new projects. Nonetheless, his advisers persuaded him to try at least a grey rabbit: revision of corporate taxes deterrent to Business. Secretary of Commerce Harry Hopkins heralded it, Secretary of Treasury Henry Morgenthau nursed it after Undersecretary John Hanes bred and produced...
...least one white rabbit a year out of his fine high hat was produced by Franklin Roosevelt in the first five years of his Administration, to solve and save the U. S. economy. For his sixth year, with some 11,000,000 workers still jobless, the Budget still reeling, the President appeared to have lost his urge for new projects. Nonetheless, his advisers persuaded him to try at least a grey rabbit: revision of corporate taxes deterrent to Business. Secretary of Commerce Harry Hopkins heralded it, Secretary of Treasury Henry Morgenthau nursed it after Undersecretary John Hanes bred and produced...
...grew pungent also about turning relief back to the States: "I wouldn't want any Governor handling my funds, even if I were a Governor. It's too political. Governors always want to be Pres- idents. . . ." But Mayor Hoan, a Socialist whose boast is that his city budget balances, added that he wished for a pay-as-you-go WPA, financed by taxes, not bond issues! "Let me tell you, as an American citizen, it worries me, this going deeper and deeper into debt...
Meanwhile San Francisco sat and moped over its music. Director of the San Francisco Fair's music, dollar-eyed, dewlapped Harris De Haven Connick, had pictured a rosy future on an $800,000 budget. But last week, with their Fair already open more than two months and Director Connick out on his ear, irate San Franciscans were clamoring for more and better music. So far the most important music absorbed by San Francisco's 2,900,301 Fairgoers was played by Edwin Franko Goldman's band. After booping inconspicuously in odd spots about the Fair grounds...
With Congress hell-bent to carve up the national budget, Federal Arts projects have come in for more than their share of epithets. "Useless," "extravagant," and myriads of other Republican, battle cries are heard. 210 Harvard Faculty members have risen in protest against this attack, vehemently defending Federal Arts on the ground that "a democratic government can assure its citizens a freedom of life, of enterprise, and of access to the arts of civilization such as no other government can or will assure them." They protest against the stifling of this "freedom of access" by distorted Congressional "economy...