Word: budgets
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...commercial Palmer House 1,500 delegates of the Music Teachers National Association and other music bigwigs swarmed last week to spend four days arguing and agreeing, airing big plans and uttering big grievances. U. S. Commissioner of Education John Ward Studebaker urged them to support a proposed $98,000 budget for the new U. S. Department of Music & Fine Arts. The teachers managed to agree, and raised $1,100. They showed less agreement but much more emotion when Leo Fischer, executive secretary of the American Guild of Musical Artists, appealed for the Dickstein Bill which aims to limit foreign competition...
...reasons. To achieve the class of a major, basketball must be popularized. This should place no further strain on the H.A.A.: in fact, the increased attendance which should result from a good team and the spontaneous music of an informal number of the regular band will materially assist its budget...
...people of the state of Wisconsin, failed as an administrator of public funds. In each of the crises which the university has faced in the last two years, the Snell "affair" at the Extension Division in Milwaukee in 1935, the Spears-Meanwell athletic flareup last spring and the present budget question which brought about this latest trouble, Frank has failed to take a strong stand and has remained "unavailable" until the crisis was past. It is on these grounds that the regents seek to remove him, not because Governor LaFollette wants to run the state university and seeks to replace...
...last week. But a few days prior a numbers runner was murdered in Washington, and a Harlem numbers collector, who was a WPA worker on the side, was shot to death by another WPA worker for welching on a 6? bet which hit. This was a fairly routine budget of blood for the biggest, richest racket in the U. S. today...
...long chat. For the rest of that day and the next and the next, cue-seekers passed in procession through the White House offices. Those interested in immediate or routine questions-inauguration ceremonies (Admiral Gary T. Grayson), CCC continuation (Director Fechner), tax revision (Senator Pat Harrison, Representative Bob Doughton), budget (Secretary Morgenthau, Chairman Eccles of the Federal Reserve)-got immediate answers. But Franklin Roosevelt, having waved aside for a whole month matters of second-term policy, gave no sign that he was ready promptly on return to give cues on such major projects as reviving the substance...