Word: budgets
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...reminded cheering Kansans of the rise in wheat prices since 1932, observed that during his previous campaign tour there had been a lot of tourists passing through on freight cars while now they were riding in Pullmans. At Wichita he rapped tactfully at Governor Landon's balanced budget by declaring: "I do not believe that Kansas, any more than any other state, would have pulled through the difficult problems of the past four years as it has, had it not been for Federal cooperation and Federal assistance in many fields of your endeavor...
...President implies that the budget is to be balanced not by decreased expenditures but by increased revenue. The recoverable assets are being spent as they are recovered and the President promises there will be no new taxes. Hence the Government debt will not be reduced. It will probably stay at upwards of $35,000,000,000 until the next Depression when another layer of debt will be piled...
...mean to balance the budget...
...career. Hardly a trace of the schoolboyish drone with which he began his campaign appeared as the Nominee masterfully set his audience laughing and booing at Franklin Roosevelt's 1932 demands for economy, went on to attack his opponent with forceful conviction: "As for his assurances that the budget would be balanced-well, these political hush-darlings have become annual fixtures...
...balance our budget in 1933 or 1934 or 1935 would have been a crime against the American people...