Word: flap
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Washington's erstwhile big spenders were scrambling like refugees to the safe side of economy. None made the move with more agility than Senate Majority Leader Lyndon Johnson. Before recess Lyndon had edged close to the border, but he had also aired his private conviction that the budget flap would soon blow over. Ten days of Texas barbecues and bellyaching had turned him into economy's all-out champion: "I have never in my career seen such a strong demand for economy in Government." So general was the agreement that Capitol Hill was betting that Dwight Eisenhower would...
Perhaps because it came the week after the income-tax deadline and in the still-blazing afterglow of the Humphrey flap over federal spending, the Federal Government's latest report on another rise in the cost of living curled the hair of many a U.S. businessman and wage earner last week...
Required by law to send his fiscal 1958 budget to Congress last January, Dwight Eisenhower soon made it clear that his Administration was still trying to find ways to shave the record-breaking $71.8 billion. Later, after Treasury Secretary George Humphrey set off a clamorous flap by predicting that big budgets would lead to a hair-curling depression, President Eisenhower passed the hot budget potato to Congress, saying that it was the "duty" of Congressmen to cut spending-if they possibly could. The House of Representatives tossed the potato right back with a resolution asking the President to point...
...budgetary responsibility, and was calculated to cut spending by about $600 million in fiscal 1958 and even more in future years. But the message was more than that: it was an all-out Administration effort to recapture the lead in the budget-cutting uproar touched off by the Humphrey flap. Moreover, it was a unique way of dramatizing the fact that Congress too has an impelling duty to act responsibly...
...sense George Humphrey cannot see what the Humphrey flap is all about. He had nothing specific in mind but a low budget figure, even though he would shed no tears if such items as foreign economic aid and aid to education were cut. If he has stirred up popular misgivings about the budget that haunt every Congressman, he cannot believe that this is a disservice-and many would agree with him in principle. But the disservice haunts those fellow members of the Administration who believe that the budget is the minimum price for providing the services that an expanding...