Word: budgets
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...President held a special cramming session for newshawks to instruct them in the intricacies of his budget message 24 hours before he sent it to the Capitol (see p. 16). His third message, on Government Reorganization, which goes to Congress this week, required two preliminary sessions. Sunday afternoon he spent an hour and a half priming Vice President Garner, Senators Joe Robinson and Pat Harrison, Speaker Bankhead, Representatives Rayburn, Buchanan and Doughton on the Re-organization Plan so that they would be prepared to defend it from the first moment that opposition reared its ugly head...
...desk and turned away. As he did so the volume began to slip. Alney Chaffee made a lunge for it but it escaped him, with a resounding clank fell into a large brass cuspidor. The House guffawed. The first fall had been taken out of the U. S. Budget for fiscal...
Clerk Chaffee, doubling his official dignity, retrieved the book and began to read Franklin Roosevelt's budget message. Before the minds of Representatives became completely swamped in a sea of figures they had apprehended some points that the President was making...
...Budget Cutting...
According to the Governor, the purpose of the survey will be to discover whether the budget of the State Colege can be pared. James G. Reardon, commissioner of education, backed his Governor in attacking Hugh P. Baker, president of the State College...