Word: budgets
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...after another, popular young teachers have been fired, from Economics Instructors John Raymond Walsh and Alan R. Sweezy two years ago to Art Instructor Robin D. Feild last spring. Basic reason for the firings was a slump in Harvard's income from its investments, resulting in a tighter budget. But facultymen complained that President Conant was a budget autocrat, that he used a slide-rule formula in dealing out money to the various departments. Students grumbled because they believed Dr. Conant was bent on getting crack research men instead of crack teachers, because he hired big-name scholars...
Last week it was not April, but Britain was no longer at peace, when Sir John Simon rose to open a new, extraordinary budget. Before him was the worn red leather dispatch box that had been used by Gladstone. Three famed predecessors of Sir John's sat in the crowded Commons as he opened the box and began drawing out sheaves of paper. There was Neville Chamberlain, who used to have the amiable boomtime duty of announcing surpluses. There was Winston Churchill, who in the years 1924-29 would accompany his budget demands with thumping gestures. And, tiny...
...Germany, Adolf Hitler tells his people what he wants, and takes it. In Russia, Joseph Stalin does the same. In France, Edouard Daladier had promulgated sweeping socialistic measures by decree. In Great Britain, Sir John Simon opened the budget in September instead of April...
...economic strain of war, even with abundant supplies available, was brought home to Britons last week by their war budget: income taxes up to 37½% (see p. 27). That kind of strain makes civilians impatient with the military. The impotent, halting performance of Britain's Ministry of Information nourished a growing suspicion that there was just hardly any good news to report. That, too, made the people impatient. They want to see action, to "get on with it." In this war's first 30 days, the only action Allied civilians saw was a creeping infantry advance...
Prime mover of the National Ceramic Exhibition is tall, energetic, sparkling-eyed Anna Wetherill Olmsted, director of the Syracuse museum. She started the show in 1932 as a memorial to Syracuse's ate gifted Adelaide Alsop Robineau, pioneer U. S. ceramist. On a shoestring budget Miss Olmsted has brought the show to national importance. Overjoyed was she in 1937 when a similar exhibition of U. S. ceramic art by European invitation toured Denmark, Sweden, Finland, and England, ceramic centres all, and won high praise. No mere praiser of museum pieces, Miss Olmsted is glad that many of he ceramists...