Word: budgets
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Received and debated the $43,162,904 Interior Department appropriation bill. Its total was $2,891,025 below the budget estimate. $23,990,780 below the current appropriation...
...good speakeasies. After long hearings and solemn consideration the committee had concluded that no one could get drunk on such a beverage, that therefore it was a non-intoxicant under the 18th Amendment. Ostensibly H. R. 13,312 was put forward as a new tax bill to raise additional budget-balancing revenue. Its real purpose, however, was to carry out the V. S. electorate's Wet mandate of Nov. 8?a mandate more potent to Congress than the Constitution...
From the Treasury, Secretary Mills was summoned to give his views on the revenue-raising features of the beer bill. He estimated it would net only $125,000,000 to $150,000,000 per year whereas more than twice that amount was needed to balance the Budget...
Chancellor Chamberlain showed himself a true John Bull of the old school when he said quietly that Britain's payment would be made even though it would unbalance the Budget by a sum equal or superior to that paid...
...Columbia bills to close local barber shops one day per week and to allow Capitol attaches Congressional automobile tags. ¶ Received from the Appropriations Committee the first supply bill-Treasury & Post Office. Its total, $961,416,597, had been cut $32,912,304 under President Hoover's Budget estimate. Into this measure the House sank its teeth, went seriously to work. ¶ Meanwhile the Ways & Means Committee heard many a witness in favor of a 2.75% beer bill carrying a $5 per bbl. tax. Special Session. President-elect Roosevelt, if he can help it, does not want to begin...