Word: budgets
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...were impressed by the Kennedy-Bullitt stories, and Congress was aquiver by the time Franklin Roosevelt sent up his message telling why and for what he wanted more Defense money, besides the $510,000,000 for the Army and $720,000,000 for the Navy provided by the regular budget...
...Florida, John Hanes became, after less than a year of Government service, the Treasury's acting head. Mr. Morgenthau was well content, for as two men of property, probity and conservative tastes, he and John Hanes understand each other well. They agree, for instance, that if the Budget is not balanced some day soon, the country will surely go to hell...
...month before Franklin Roosevelt's $8,995,000,000 1940 budget appeared, conservative Democrat Harry Flood Byrd of Virginia issued an anticipatory blast at continued deficit financing. Federal Reserve Chairman Marriner Stoddard Eccles replied to him in a letter that filled three newspaper columns (TIME, Jan. 2). Last week as Congress took a savage nibble at the President's special Relief budget (see p. 77), Senator Byrd replied to Mr. Eccles in six newspaper columns. Juiciest points of Byrd answers...
...York State Society of Certified Public Accountants, New York City's bouncing Comptroller Joseph D. McGoldrick last week boasted that in five years the LaGuardia unco-honest Fusion Administration had cost taxpayers $325,664,347 less than the last five years of Tammany rule. The Citizens Budget Commission looked at his figures, said he must have meant $125,664,347. So he did, replied Mr. McGoldrick, confessing a $200,000,000 error...
...head of New Zealand's Government when the world depression hit bottom in 1931 was Prime Minister George William Forbes, whose favorite cry was "Stabilize the Budget." He helped to stifle the 1932 Auckland riot with British bluejackets from H. M. S. Philomel and with 1,200 special constables swinging brand-new truncheons. His helplessness in the face of continued depression made him unpopular, and in 1935 the Laborites got a majority and a Prime Minister-a stocky, alert, pudgy-faced farmer's son named Michael Joseph Savage. Before becoming Prime Minister he had been a messenger...