Word: drastic
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...hospitals, taxes on land outside the city which the city owned for watersheds, etc., etc. Actually the budget was $41,000,000 out of balance and LaGuardia set out to balance it by raising half in taxes and saving the remainder. He did so with the aid of a drastic economy act passed by the State Legislature. Since then he has kept the city's budget at about the same size which he inherited from Tammany...
...annual deficits have exceeded $10,000,000 for the last three years and show no signs of falling. Casting about for some way of adding substantial millions to the city's revenues, they fished out a plan first proposed five years ago but hitherto regarded as too drastic to touch. This was a tax of four mills on every dollar of most of the "personal property" (securities) held in Philadelphia by mutual savings banks and mutual life and fire insurance companies. This time the Council passed the tax and put it up to Mayor Wilson for approval...
...question of economy Franklin Roosevelt has a record full of more anomalies than any other man in public life. Having been elected on a platform of balancing the Budget, he proceeded within a year to undertake a program of further unbalancing. Having started his Administration with a drastic economy bill, he quickly followed it by still more drastic spending measures...
...Palestine this week, her decks carrying a full flight of airplanes. Mild High Commissioner Sir Arthur Grenfell Wauchope, who has governed Palestine for several years with a policy of "muddling through," was reported in Jerusalem dispatches as slated to receive a peerage and be replaced in Palestine by drastic Sir John Anderson, the efficiently ruthless sahib who, as Governor of Bengal, suppressed a series of assassinations of British officials by natives which had reached anarchic proportions. Sir John Anderson is never quoted as uttering such homilies as Sir Arthur Grenfell Wauchope's often repeated dictum: "I am a good...
...privately owned cows in the State. In company with Senator Carter Glass of Virginia, whom I count among my friends, I am opposed to these laws. The new legislation is beyond the attempts of Stalin, Hitler and Mussolini. I felt that it was time somebody did something of a drastic nature to fight this new Tuberculin Test Law. There are other laws that are taking our freedom away. It's about time that people fought these crazy laws. Gradually the country is getting so that there is no personal liberty left...