Word: budgets
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Finances will be the new administration's first concern. Mr. Roosevelt will make an honest effort to balance the still unbalanced budget. A 25% reduction in Government expenses?about $1,000,000,000 is definitely promised but no time limit is set. Thus if 6% is cut from each successive annual budget the Democratic President will be able to claim at the end of his term a fulfillment of this platform pledge. Despite the National Economy League's clamor. President Roosevelt will not lead a movement against the $400,000,000 Allowance to veterans for miscellaneous illnesses which have...
...foreign service requires 15 new Ambassadors. 42 new Ministers. A new President must pick & choose until he gets men to serve him as Commissioner of Internal Revenue, Commissioner of Customs, Comptroller of the Currency, Governor of the Federal Reserve Board, Director of the Mint, Director of the Budget, Director of Engraving & Printing, Governor General of the Philippines, Commissioner of Indian Affairs, Director of the Census, Governor of Puerto Rico, Commissioner of Education, Director of the Bureau of Standards, Director of Prohibition, Commissioner of the Land Office, Administrator of Veterans' Affairs, Commissioner General of Immigration, Civil Service Commissioners (3), Farm Loan...
...well-to-do pay higher taxes, but are slowly coming to realize that sky-high rates on luxuries and big incomes fail to produce proportionate revenue in hard times and therefore defeat their own end. Thus the General Sales Tax may become the only practical means of balancing the budget...
...that the petition form of appeal in being prostituted by a group which is too ignorant to learn to budget its time to fit the new Library hours; too lazy to walk from the playing fields, the Athletic Building, or the laboratories to draw books out for the overnight use at 6 o'clock; and whose Committee Chairman has himself admitted to the Comptroller that he is not personally inconvenienced at all by the early closing. Eugene Du Bois...
...scholarships are financed by private contribution and by funds diverted for this purpose from the operating budget of the Institute itself. It provides for one award for each five students regularly enrolled in each of these divisions...