Word: budgets
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Deal was alarmed by the possibility of a slump and Franklin Roosevelt's attitude appeared to reflect a tacit change. Likewise modified was the attitude of many a business man who has groaned because of unhealthy Federal deficits. The President last week reiterated his intention of balancing the budget in 1939, had a long Hyde Park conference with Chairman Marriner S. Eccles of the Federal Reserve Board, Secretary of the Treasury Morgenthau and Budget Director Daniel W. Bell. Fearing the medicine of reduced Federal spending more than the disease of unbalanced budgets, businessmen, like the New Deal, began...
...months Managing Editor Vernon Pope has had to increase Look's initial budget ten times, so the magazine has netted only $10,000 an issue, all of which has been turned back into promotion...
...school system-denounced by such Titans in education as University of Chicago's President Robert Maynard Hutchins and Dean Charles Hubbard Judd -which has gained for Chicago's schools the reputation of being the poorest and most expensive in the U. S. Of the $52,000,000 budget this year, only $35,000,000 went for instruction. Struck down in the past few years have been kindergartens, continuation schools, the junior college, junior high schools, manual training, domestic science and physical training in elementary schools. In one-half the elementary schools children have only drinking fountains to wash...
...budget statement President Roosevelt announced that he had definitely clamped the lid on two of the New Deal's biggest honey pots, RFC and PWA. They will not be liquidated but their spending days are over. Each will carry out commitments now on the books but further loans or grants are to be barred...
...Secretary Wallace discreetly observed that if figured in the same relation to so-called "parity prices" as cotton, the corn loans would be about 46? per bu. Only problem was to find the money-a problem complicated by President Roosevelt's announced determination to balance the budget (see p. 17). After a huddle with the President and Secretary of the Treasury Morgenthau, Mr. Wallace declared with engaging vagueness: "Money undoubtedly can be found somewhere. Human ingenuity can meet the situation...