Word: fiscal
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...world markets, while holding the dollar and pound at present levels, the hesitations of the President and Secretary of the Treasury Henry Morgenthau Jr. were brief. Nevertheless, these hesitations were agonizing to Premier Edouard Daladier, for, although most Frenchmen were convinced the franc must be again cheapened, some French fiscal experts believed Franklin Roosevelt would take this occasion to cheapen the dollar too, as he did four years...
...Under Fiscal, you mention "after relief rolls climbed from 17,314,000 in January to 18,502,000. . . ." Can those figures be right? I thought there were only some 11,000,000 unemployed in the whole nation...
Round No. 1 was straight Relief. The President asked for an additional appropriation of $1,250,000,000 for WPA for the first seven months of the next fiscal year starting next July. He also asked for an extra $300,000,000 for CCC, National Youth Administration and the Farm Security Administration. The total of $1,550,000,000 would enable the Government to maintain relief expenditures after July 1 at approximately the current rate-$200,000,000 per month...
White House and punctuated by the ringing of a telephone bell in the police booth directly behind the President's desk.* Because it was concerned almost entirely with fiscal matters, because these were expressed largely by quotations of his earlier message and because the President's voice and manner were flatter, more perfunctory than usual, it was one of the dullest as well as the longest (4,860 words) on record. Nonetheless, it was not devoid of appealing imagery, an adroitly conciliatory reference to Business and a thoughtful little essay on the ideology of centralized government. Excerpts...
...team could have had more practice indoors at Cambridge. Even the lacrosse team, which played its games through mud and rain, spent money which could better be used for some under-coached or ill-equipped minor sport. Soccer, fencing and polo are obvious examples of financial mal-nutrition and fiscal deficiency...