Word: budgets
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Stigmatizing a balanced budget as "disastrous" under present conditions, George H. Earle '13, Governor of Pennsylvania, before an audience of 400 in the Harvard Union, last night advocated government spending on a vast scale to tide over the country until its economists can work out a permanent solution for pressing economic problems...
Governor Earle pointed out to critics of an unbalanced budget that the United States' debt is less than a third that of France and England. "We must must stop the downward momentum by constructive government spending. Empty stomachs do not think...
Michigan's Senator Vandenberg thought the President should disclose "the justifying facts, if any, for the biggest regular budget for arms in our history." Congressman Maury Maverick, the liberal Texan, declared: "We must also decide what national defense is-whether it means battleships 600 miles up the Yangtze River in China or no farther than Hawaii." California's Senator Johnson wanted to know what the "foreign policy of this Government is. I don't know what it is. You don't know what...
Leaving it to Congress to argue the repeal of the undistributed profits tax, a balanced budget, the broadening of the income tax base, citizens should consider the conference's recommendation for a permanent organization of little business to deal with the government and should compare the desires of big and little business. Unfortunately the President refused to give official sanction to a group, representative of half the nation's business, anxious to cooperate with Washington. In addition, circumstances of the conference made it impossible to form any organization. But immediate failure should not discourage leaders of little business from trying...
...Henie's films fresh than by putting them on ice. To give Sonja presentable, even spectacular, settings in which to display her twinkling, silver-bladed eurythmy is a set designer's holiday. But to blend a plot with her icebound talents is something not even a Zanuck budget seems to be able to accomplish. Happy Landing makes Miss Henie a million-dollar sideshow on a cheapskate circuit...