Word: budgets
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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When Mr. Hutson held up Placard 2 the band stopped playing "California, Here I Come" and fell into "Happy Days Are Here Again," Governor Rolph's official tune. Along toward Placard 15 a talking film of President Hoover urging the Senate to balance the Budget was thrown on the screens. Another placard wound up the demonstration with "Onward Christian Soldiers...
Presumably this black fit of pessimism was induced in Italy's normally optimistic Premier by his Government's inability to balance its budget (TIME, May 23), coupled with the refusal of the U. S. Congress to sanction cancellation of German Reparations and the War Debts of Italy and her Allies...
...seethed with monarchist rumors as Chancellor von Papen put the screws on Prussia. This he did by abruptly forbidding a payment of 100,000,000 marks ($23,700,000) from the German Treasury to the Prussian Treasury, a payment on which Prussia had counted as indispensable to balancing her budget. Particularly excited by the Chancellor's drastic move were the South German states, fiercely jealous of their rights in the German family...
...immediate crisis was expected, since Chancellor von Papen and the leading members of his Cabinet had to depart for the Lausanne Conference. Meanwhile the Prussian Free State struggled heroically to balance its budget, raised a forced loan by levying on the salaries of State employes, succeeded in obtaining credits from certain friendly Berlin banks. Correspondents agreed that intra-German relations have never been more strained since the founding of the Republic...
...revue dealing with the celebrated troubles of the Chicago Board of Education. Last fortnight the Board received a twelve-volume survey of the schools (cost: $100,000) from Dr. George Drayton Strayer of Teachers' College, Columbia University. Chief recommendation: that $16,000,000 be pruned from the 1933 budget...