Word: budgets
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Passed the $1,002,800,000 Independent Offices Appropriation bill; sent it to the Senate. Undebated and untouched was the item of $966,838,634 for veterans compensation and pensions, the amount recommended in the President's budget.* Despite complaints that the "Power Trust" was trying to stifle the Government's investigation of its activities, the House refused (181-to-165) to increase the Federal Trade Commission's allowance from...
...Manchukuo. In Tokyo there was no popular doubt that the massing of U. S. warships in the Pacific was a naval gesture against Japan. But diplomacy still kept a smiling front. Last month when the question of the U. S. maneuvers was raised in the Japanese Diet's budget committee, Foreign Minister Uchida vetoed as "improper" a suggestion that diplomatic representation be made to the U. S. on that score...
...march and fight And threaten us with dynamite. Those stalwart ones may have the onus Of laying hands upon the bonus. The currency-to them we hand it, To shrink, contract it, or expand it. We'll let them exercise their talents On making that thar' budget balance. And, pointing out, with no delaying, A tax the public won't mind paying. To make this simple as can be, We leave to them technocracy. To them we're leaving the analysis Of beer producing no paralysis. To them we leave, with stifled sobs, All persons...
...Budget Juggle. First job of the new Cabinet, as of its two predecessors, is to balance the French budget which should have been balanced by Jan. 1. Since the Socialists wrecked the last Cabinet rather than vote enough new taxes and economies to restore fiscal equilibrium, the only course open last week seemed to be to juggle figures so that the French deficit could be called smaller than it actually is: 10½ billion francs...
...pledges of drastic reduction of expenditure, was couched unequivocally in the first person singular. Repeatedly he made the statement that his administration would face extraordinary problems, and the assumption that his personal powers must be exceptional was in no way veiled. The national faith in legislative remedies, and congressional budget balancing, has been seriously impaired, and it was as a result of Mr. Roosevelt's unmistakably pragmatic conception of the presidency that much of his overwhelming support was recruited...