Word: budgets
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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With the campaign pressing him from all sides President Hoover last week found it hard to keep his mind on public business. He went over some Budget figures with Director James Clawson Roop. He discussed labor conditions in the bituminous coal fields with callers. He answered a stack of belated mail. But most of his time was taken up by G. O. Partisans who wanted to tell him how good they thought his Des Moines speech was (see below) and urge him to go into their territory and make another like it. Exclaimed blind Senator Schall of Minnesota: "Mr. President...
...reread carefully an interview he gave the North America Newspaper Alliance last April. Said he then: "I don't see how, as a matter of practical sense, a government running behind $2,000,000,000 annually can consider the anticipation of Bonus payments until it has a balanced Budget, not only on paper but with a surplus of cash in the Treasury...
Daughter Giulia was the old Doge's pet. Beautiful, wild and wilful, she was a magnificent horsewoman and used to spend $200,000 a year on her clothes. At one horse show she wore 17 different costumes. Newspapers once published her dress budget. It included 365 pairs of gloves. She would never wear a pair twice...
...been pointed out by some that economics ought to be made in other departments of the University instead of in the Library, which serves such an essential function. The fact is that cuts have been made in the budgets throughout the University and that the Library must make its own saving. The library budged had to be out ten per cent. A saving of $19,000 was made by reducing the purchases of books and by leaving unfilled vacancies on the staff. A further economy of $16,000 was effected by shortening the when the Library is open. This...
...fundamental principle is that League states should pay their share of the running expense. Last week Norwegian Chairman Carl Hambro of the League Budget reported that only nine states have paid their dues in full this year; that there is $1,440,000 owing for the years 1930-32; that the League will apparently have to declare itself bankrupt or obtain a loan...