Word: budgets
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...dullest publications of Government Printing Office is The Budget of the United States Government. In it inveterate collectors of useless information may occasionally turn up the fact that $5,897-38 was spent to send the Marine Band to the G. A. R. encampment; or that an unexpended appropriation of $5,004.25 was reappropriated to buy land for landless California Indians. But the meat of this fat volume is its introduction written by the President and dispatched to Congress as his annual Budget Message...
...Before taking up the budget of the next fiscal year (1939) in a special message read to Congress last week the President reviewed the budget for fiscal 1938 ending next June. Revising his figures on the current budget for the fourth time since he predicted a "layman's balance" a year ago, President Roosevelt estimated receipts at $6,320,000,000, expenditures at $7,408,000,000. Result: a 1938 net deficit of $1,088,000,000. The change in the past year from an estimated balance to a billion-dollar deficit was caused largely by an overestimate...
...budget, the forecast for receipts was $5,919,000,000, for expenditures $6,869,000,000. Result: a 1939 net deficit of $950,000,000. On the outgo side the President tentatively set down Defense at just under a billion, Relief at just over a billion, then added: "Due to world conditions over which this Nation has no control, I may find it necessary to request additional appropriations for national defense. Furthermore, the economic situation may not improve-and if it does not, I expect the approval of Congress and the public for additional appropriations if they become necessary...
...another reason which has made the authorities hesitate to spend more money on outdoor facilities has been the hope that eventually as long as the building remains a fancy rather then a fact, the minor expense of an outdoor rink should be important enough to be included in the budget of the Athletic Association. What is more, a small price for the use of the ice would be willingly paid by the undergraduates and would relieve the burden of expense. So, as the cold days are moving by, the vast expanse of Soldiers Field is only waiting...
...Socialism. But under Roosevelt and LaGuardia the government by providing relief from the City Hall made unnecessary the exhorbitant tax which New Yorkers paid when this service emanated from the Wigwam. Good government is now preferred to Tammany misrule because good government has ceased to mean merely a balanced budget wrapped up in sterile slogans about initiative and self reliance...