Word: budgets
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...article in the New York Times magazine section on how the State Department is run; Adolf Augustus Berle Jr. railroad adviser to Reconstruction Finance Corp., an article in the New York Times on the new securities bill; Louis McHenry Howe, Secretary to the President, a radio interview on budget-balancing. Secretary Howe con- cluded his broadcast with a half-sobbing account of how some woman had wanted to name her kittens after him but he had lost her letter-and, oh, he was so terribly upset about those poor little kittens. ¶"I love the U. S. Navy more than...
...would carry these anti-Administration amendments to the Senate floor, there stage his fight in the President's behalf. President Roosevelt sent a letter to the committee asking it to restore the license clause as the only means to make the law effective. Chair-man Harrison and Budget Director Douglas battled with the committee, brought five Democrats back into line in a 12-to-6 vote to restore the license clause. However the committee limited the working of the clause to one year, instead of two as first provided...
When President Roosevelt signed his Economy Bill last March and decreed drastic reductions in the pension rolls, he was one long lap ahead of the veterans' lobby. By last week the veterans' lobby had not only caught up with him but was rapidly undoing his Budget savings. At its prodding the Senate had openly revolted against the President and Speaker Rainey was predicting that the House could no longer be held in line...
Under the Economy Act, President Roosevelt set up a new military pension system, effective July 1, which was to cut veterans' expenditures almost in half-a clear saving of $460,000,000 per year and the keystone of his Budget balancing program. This economy was to be accomplished by: 1) confining null null pensions to those actually hurt in military service before Nov. 11, 1918; 2) reducing their allowances sharply after reclassifying their injuries; 3) striking from the rolls all Spanish War veterans under 62 who could not show service-connected disabilities. Principal losers of pensions were veterans partly...
...called a Sunday night conference at the White House on his return from a cruise down the Potomac on the Sequoia. To it he summoned Speaker Rainey, Majority Leader Byrns, half a dozen important House Democrats. For three hours he gave them a heart-to-heart. Director of the Budget Douglas had advised him to veto the whole appropriation bill, take the economy issue to the country by radio if Congress insisted upon a pension boost. The President did not want to do that if he could help it. BUT THE BUDGET MUST BE BALANCED, he told his House visitors...