Word: budgets
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Concerned with smaller subjects in this troubled world, Franklin Delano Roosevelt last week had nothing on his mind except preparing 1) a message to Congress on the State of the Union, 2) another on the Budget and 3) a speech for his Party's Jackson Day dinner this week. While his children and grandchildren kept the White House gay during the days between Christmas and New Year's, the President put in a busy week in his study. When Congress convened this week he drove to the Capitol. There, to a packed chamber of Senators and Representatives...
...Budget-"The proposed budget for 1939 [the fiscal year beginning next July 1], which I shall shortly send to the Congress, will exhibit a further decrease in the deficit, though not an actual balance...
...then proceeded from Washington to withdraw his support and wreck that conference, British public opinion was incensed. Soon afterward, however, the British began little by little to be dazzled by the bursting glory of the New Deal. Their own Cabinet, under the Rt. Hon. Stanley Baldwin and his budget-balancing Chancellor of the Exchequer Neville Chamberlain, began to seem a group of humdrum stick-in-the-muds compared to the spectacular humanism radiating from the White House. During much of the short reign of Edward VIII those British subjects who admired what they considered His Majesty's spectacular humanism...
...half days were lost during last winter's flood. Reason for the rest of the school loss in Ohio's best-run city is a State constitutional amendment, wangled by real-estate men and farmers in 1934, fixing a 10-mills realty tax ceiling. To balance its budget for normal school activities, Cincinnati's Board of Education last fall had to submit a special tax levy to the voters. It was narrowly defeated (93,312-to-90,246) and the school year was shortened from ten to eight-and-one-half months. This fall a special...
...high-priced Lord & Thomas copywriter, Mr. Getchell has toyed with the picture magazine idea, in 1935 prepared a sample photo magazine but was unable to raise the $2,000,000 he thought he needed for Picture. His present 10? monthly was put out on a slenderer budget...