Word: budgets
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Tammany's political strength derives in large measure from oversized municipal payrolls, fat public contracts, personal relief for the faithful. Slim, slick little Mayor James John Walker, whose salary is $40,000, refused to economize. In 1929 the municipal budget was $520,000,000; in 1931, $605,000,000. For this year Mayor Walker put through a budget of $631,000,000 while his critics screamed themselves hoarse about his extravagance. Fortnight after New Year's the city treasury found it had only about $13,000,000 in cash on hand and close...
...Colombia's bank credit was unaccountably held up in New York. President Olaya complained to Secretary Stimson who went in person to see the attorney of National City Co. in New York. The hankers were not urged not to be "unduly technical." Mr. Schoepperle insisted that the Colombian budget had not been balanced as agreed and as for the Barco con cession, he did not "give a damn." On June 20, 1931 the Barco concession was restored to Gulf Oil Corp., to the large satisfaction of the State Department. On June 30 Mr. Schoepperle released the final...
...French Ministry of Finance published a preliminary estimate of the budget last week omitting all figures on Reparations and War debts...
...seats for 3,000. The new rink, where curling, figure skating and hockey will be played next month, was one of many improvements made at Lake Placid since the Olympic Winter Games, held at Chamonix in 1924, at St. Moritz in 1928, were awarded to the U. S. Budget for this winter's games was over $1,000,000 of which $200,000 came from Lake Placid, $500,000 from the State of New York. Improvements on the bob-sled run cost $225,000. Designer Stanislaus Zentzytski, imported from Berlin, built into the side of Van Hoevenberg Mountain a deep...
...brought the total U. S. mileage to over 760,000. Well aware of this expanding territory, and of the replacement figures beckoning the industry, Alfred Pritchard Sloan Jr., General Motors president, had courage to prophesy guardedly: "We know we have the first lien on the purchaser's budget; that the motor car is the last thing that the individual gives up. . . . The new offerings this year unquestionably represent greater .value than ever before. . . . My own belief ... is that we will enjoy a somewhat better year than...