Word: budgets
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...question of economy Franklin Roosevelt has a record full of more anomalies than any other man in public life. Having been elected on a platform of balancing the Budget, he proceeded within a year to undertake a program of further unbalancing. Having started his Administration with a drastic economy bill, he quickly followed it by still more drastic spending measures...
...Government has decided immediately to apply a plan of restoration, including defense of the Bank of France's reserves without recourse to exchange control, implacable war against speculation, a strictly balanced budget for 1937, to be obtained through appropriate fiscal measures and an important reduction in the Treasury's burden...
...open its 20th season of concerts in the Lewisohn Stadium, the New York Philharmonic engaged enterprising Conductor Vladimir Golschmann of St. Louis and Violinist Albert Spalding as soloist, sold 15,000 tickets. Mrs. Charles S. Guggenheimer announced that $65,000 had been collected toward the $75,000 budget. Adolph Lewisohn, 88, who donated the $225,000 stadium, promised other conductors like Fritz Reiner, Willem Van Hoogstraten, Alexander Smallens, George King Raudenbush. The first week of the eight-week season was to feature Lily Pons singing three arias and Soprano Erica Darbo in an elaborate production of Strauss's Salome...
...venture to say that if Congress at this session voted taxes enough or reduced Government appropriations for Relief and other purposes sufficient to balance the Budget, half the members would not be reelected. So let us not blame it all on Congress. The place to begin economizing is at home. The electorate must practice restraint before economy can be accomplished in Government...
...emulated. The letter of credit, issued by the store's credit department, is given to the sales clerk, who notes on the letter the amount of each purchase, the customer being able to buy up to the limit of the letter but no more. Also widely used are "budget plans," varying in detail but all alike on one prime point-any type of merchandise can be bought on credit, paid for in installments...