Word: budgets
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...committee set up under the District of Columbia's Wage Board, having pondered budgets for salesgirls submitted by employers ($14.50 per week) and employes ($21.50 per week), finally compromised on $17. Last week the New York State Labor Department, which devises its own working-girl budgets, arrived at the figure of $23.30 per week for a woman living alone. For a girl living at home the estimate was $20.70. This was of course pure theory, since the New York laundry industry for which the budget was prepared pays its female help as low as $6 per week...
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...That even these cautious tactics could not prevent dissension was the best evidence that Republicanism, muddled and frustrated as it may be, still has plenty of political vitality. In far off Vermont, grey, bespectacled Governor George D. Aiken, who has been boomed by his New England neighbors as another budget-balancing Presidential possibility, took occasion to attack the party's present leadership and to demand, instead of a creed, an end to the age-old rotten borough representation of the South in Republican national conventions. To welcome Republican Chairman Hamilton when he arrived late in St. Louis from Washington...
...difficult as balancing the U. S. budget is the task of devising cinema plots in which opera stars may be induced to perform less self-consciously than opera stars. Last week two of Hollywood's attempts to skirt this problem appeared, with varying success...
...nation's business while the President went off on a holiday. A request to cut in half an appropriation for such a valuable vote-getting purpose as highway construction looked like advance preparation for blaming Congress, if it failed to approve the cut, in case the 1938-39 budget is not balanced. Nonetheless, by week's end, it was rumored that the Bureau of the Budget was preparing still more drastic means of satisfying the President's desire for a balanced budget. Biggest slash being considered-in anticipation of the President's budget message...