Word: budgets
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Elections must be over before any dependable forecast of the next Roosevelt Budget is available, but last week-with Congress' return ten weeks off-the President began budget making. Since the next deficit looms at least $4,000,000,000 (his second largest), his first conferences with Secretary of the Treasury Morgenthau, Assistant Secretary John Hanes, Budget Director Bell could hardly have been...
Other events soon indicated the trend of Franklin Roosevelt's budget ideas. WPA was served notice that it must make $764,000,000 remaining from its 1938 appropriation last until next March as Congress stipulated. This pointed toward Relief economy. Fresh expenditures were pointed to by the remarks made on the White House steps by a departing Presidential caller. Bernard Mannes Baruch, oldtime Roosevelt adviser, long estranged but, since the carving of Czechoslovakia, again a visitor, declared as he emerged from the Presidential presence that the U. S. is dreadfully short of arms, ammunition and equipment for a needed...
...knowledge. Thus, while scholarships at Harvard hob-nob only with the Dean's List, T.S.E. jobs reach down to Group V. Granted the validity of this principle, it follows logically that the Temporary Student Employment Plan must be granted its rightful nook in the sun of the University budget...
...effort, for the idea of a city manager has many real advantages, unrealized by most American communities. Essentially it means the elimination of graft and political favoritism from metropolitan government. It provides for the appointment by the Council of a paid administrator; he runs the city, prepares the budget, appoints subordinates according to civil service laws, while the mayor loses his powers of appointment and veto. The Council, reduced to nine members, performs the function of a board of directors, since it can remove the manager after a hearing. More important for the voters is that the Councilmen are elected...
This year's investigation of education at Harvard in general is expected to rival in importance last year's biggest Council stir, when, in a report issued in May, the Council investigation Committee found that the Social Sciences were being slighted 2-1 in the educational budget. As yet a definite committee for the probject has not been named, but it is understood that the committee will comprise both men on the Council and some from outside...