Word: budgets
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...behind the scenes in Albany, Dewey campaigners were hard at work. Under the direction of State Budget Director John Burton and Banking Superintendent Elliott Bell, a corps of researchers, phrasemakers, specialists, and advisers dug for campaign fodder. One elaborate stunt: a card-index file of every Dewey pronouncement, to be used as a guide for all G.O.P. orators...
...were jamming his shelves (sample: a 1915 pamphlet on The Care of Teeth), and he soon had gotten rid of more books than he added. He streamlined every branch, put a new microfilm filing system into the main building, built new reading rooms, demanded-and got-a tripled library budget. He found a deposit of $250,000 that had been willed to the library and never used. He built two new branch libraries, one of them the first to be built in a Negro district since 1910. Last week his third new building was going...
...choose white collar workers for typical readers? Our budget could only stand one magazine subscription, so TIME won out. As a whole, it is a fair grouping of all the things we want to know . . . But, good heavens...
Congress would create a new Cabinet post, the Secretary of Administration, who would supervise some of Washington's most important independent agencies, such as the Bureau of the Budget, the Civil Service Commission, the Atomic Energy Commission, ECA. And the Vice President would be this new tenth member of the Cabinet...
...four days dusty, backward Asuncion looked like the set for a high-budget Warner Brothers' production. Under the palms, military attaches in fancy uniforms and foreign ambassadors wearing bright-hued sashes danced Paraguayan polkas with the dark-eyed daughters of Asuncion society. Workers in pink shirts and red bandannas paraded under the unseasonably hot winter sun. The troops showed off their best uniforms and equipment, while the new President, standing in an open car, dashed about the capital with a bodyguard...