Word: budgets
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Three weeks ago President Roosevelt sent a budget message to Congress strongly urging economy and at the same time presenting estimates of revenues and expenditures showing a 1938 deficit of $418,000,000. Contrary to all recent precedent, most Congressmen passed over taxes and expenditures to seize on Economy as the thing which appealed to them most (TIME. May 3). There was still doubt, however, whether the President would drive a reluctant Congress, or the Congress would drive a reluctant President, to the first specific beginnings of Economy. Last week Congressmen gave indications that their good intentions were going...
More mechanical irregularities, too, intrude upon the smooth functioning of the Department. There should be a comprehensive library lodged in the Music Building. Adequate practice room and sufficient victrolas could be well placed in the unused space in the basement. Finally an increase in the budget should be voted to provide for assistants drawn form the ranks of talented graduates desirous of continuing their studies under practical conditions...
These several changes could be affected without too sharp a rise in the Music budget and in each case both the instructor and the students would be greatly benefited; the instructors finding teaching conditions far more agreeable and for the students the improved facilities acting as a strong incentive toward a serious study of the noblest of the muses. It can be earnestly hoped that when the present apprehension in regard to the Freshman riots is dispelled that the University will turn its attention to this very real problem...
...Conservative Chancellor of the Exchequer from 1921 to 1922: "I have talked with many people and there are great perturbations. Unless these are abated in some way I fear some check upon the enterprise of the country." British Radicals, though strongly opposed to rearmament, were delighted that the 1937 Budget hits those with most money, tagged it the "Soak-the-Rich Budget...
Angry building unions threatened to call a strike unless Premier Blum, who has pruned his budget down to a minimum, revises his finances, sets aside at least six billion francs ($265,800,000) for a public works program...