Word: budgets
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Housing Act, to stimulate the U. S. building industry by making it easier for prospective homebuilders to finance their houses (TIME, Dec. 6). In the second, he asked Congress for a $112,000,000 reduction in Federal appropriations for road building, as a step toward a balanced budget in 1939. While the President and his party cruised about the Gulf Stream last week, daily messages from a temporary White House in the Miami-Biltmore Hotel at Coral Gables, Fla. kept him informed about the repercussions of his messages in Washington...
...President's message to Congress calling for legislation to encourage private capital to start a private housing boom (see p. 18). On the pressing subject of taxes, the President announced that he favored the revision being discussed in .the House as soon as "Congress is ready." A balanced budget in 1939 would be a business stimulant. The President reiterated to Senate Majority Leader Alben Barkley his insistence that the new Farm Bill include provisions for whatever expenses above the current $500,000,000 appropriated for annual farm programs which it might entail. To a press conference, he announced...
Vandenberg: "Or when we are going to have a balanced budget...
...that the emotional intensity caused by Nazi mass meetings had overcome popular interest in politics and legislation to such an extent that the people were willing to believe anything. In fact in 1931, he said, the government found it necessary to persuade Parliment to stay together to pass the budget, in order to preserve the face of democracy...
...United Automobile Workers Union. With U. S. labor unions enjoying their greatest prosperity, Chairman Julius Hochman of Brookwood's board of directors announced last week that Brookwood's doors had been closed, perhaps permanently. Not only was the college unable to raise its $30,000 budget for the coming year, but it had unpaid debts. Having survived Labor's poverty, Brookwood was killed by Labor's prosperity...