Word: budgets
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Received from the Appropriations Committee an omnibus bill to effect economies of more than $238,605,000 as part of the Budget-balancing program (the House bill saved only $52,270,000); voted (38-to-27) for a 10% reduction in all Federal wages over $1,000 per year, thereby cutting expenditures an estimated...
...nation has ever had to shoulder in peace time. Practically every man, woman & child in the land will contribute something toward the $1,115,000,000 in new revenue which will start coming in 15 days after its enactment. The ten conferees chorused: "We've balanced the Budget...
...other purposes, was .rushed to the White House for President Hoover's signature. After six turbulent months Congress had completed its major task of the session. If followed by a real economy bill and no emergency bills without their own revenue features, the tax bill made the Budget approximately safe for another year...
...will take could be negatively deduced from M. Herriot's refusal last week to support a Socialist program which contained these leading points: 1) reduction of military expenses to the 1928 level; 2) retention of the limited French unemployment relief no matter what economies are effected to balance the budget; 3) nationalization of those French railways not already run by the State; 4) Government control of banking and all large fiscal operations...
...nine years it has promoted Race Relations Sunday (Feb. 14 this year) in the churches. This year it completed a five-year trial period in administering the Harmon Awards for Distinguished Achievement among Negroes. Working with a small budget ($20,000 this year) it is in contact with some 80 Race Relations groups throughout the land, hopes to see one in every community where race problems exist.* During the past year the Commission has found, to its vexation, much discrimination in unemployment relief. Says the report: "The crucial situation between whites and Negroes was dramatically impressed upon America last year...