Word: budgets
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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With his election duties thus disposed of President Roosevelt turned to consider matters that he knew would matter more as soon as this week's election was over. No. 1 was national rearmament. While his aides discussed a separate "Emergency budget" for defense; an air fleet of 10,000 airplanes (instead of the 7,000 mentioned fortnight ago), provision in the War Department Appropriation bill (now being drafted) to equip for instant combat an "initial protective force" of 400,000 soldiers (Regular Army plus National Guard), the President himself took action. He ordered a new navy dirigible built...
...five days, promised by then to have drawn up a new financial program. This was expected to be "orthodox," that is, not to crack down on private capital or private initiative, but to continue "democratic" efforts to coax and induce a financial recovery in France and "balance the budget." Without quite knowing what steps M. Reynaud was going to take, M. Marchandeau snorted that "similar measures have failed at least three times before, and I fail to see why they should succeed...
This high average of returns is one of Weaver's notable achievements. Working on a limited budget, he early decided that he could not compete with the elaborate offerings of direct mail advertisers. Instead, he makes his booklets chaste and subdued, thus getting his message heard, says he, much as a short-wave radio station competes with WJZ-i.e., by using a different wavelength...
...Father and other such recent memoirs should be glad to meet Bertha Damon's Grandmother Griswold. Author Damon was brought up by her grandmother in a small Connecticut town according to the gospel of Thoreau. Plain living in the vegetarian Griswold household never quite achieved Thoreau's budget of 27? a week. But to little Bertha it seemed a narrow miss...
...Chief Executive, Franklin Roosevelt let it be intimated at the White House that, with business improving, higher taxes might not be needed to "balance the Budget by 1941"-a point of view which cynics thought might be revised after election...