Word: budgets
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...general uniform tax (excluding food). The annual yield of such a general tax at 2 1/4% would be approximately $355,000,000. The additional $492,000,000 of revenue produced in this way will avoid a further in crease in the public debt [i. e.-balance the budget...
...President was rejected by the House decisively last spring, and blocked by a Senate round-robin. A $6 per bbl. tax on real beer, as advanced by the Wets for the present session, and as ignored by the President in his message, would produce approximately as much budget-balancing revenue as the loudly hated general sales...
...months President Hoover and James Clawson Roop, his budget director, had been whittling and pruning at Federal expenses in an unsuccessful effort to level up outgo and income without resorting to new taxation. Director Roop, a large, round-faced man through whose tight lips pass nothing but a pipe stem, practices none of the noisy drama of the first occupant of his office (Charles Gates Dawes) or the publicized penny-pinching of the second (the late Herbert Mayhew Lord). Few U. S. officials see their President more often or more easily than Mr. Roop. Yet, utterly modest...
...Prime budget figures...
Many a Buchmanite, says Russell, takes no thought for the morrow, what he shall eat or wear, lives on a budget of faith and prayer. When Russell thought of visiting the U. S., cabled Buchmanite Ray Purdy about it, Purdy cabled back: "Come on a basis of faith and prayer. Check your decision with Frank." Russell came, visited the U. S. for six months...