Word: humphrey
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...budget for fiscal 1958 follow Dwight Eisenhower to vacationland. Actually, the President was already moving toward a dramatic new effort to quell the continuing controversy. By writing House Speaker Sam Rayburn a 2,454-word message on suggested budget cuts (see below), Eisenhower even placated Treasury Secretary George Humphrey, the man who had tossed the first budget match. Clearly still a member of the Administration's happy family, Humphrey too headed South and, as the President's house guest, he was greeted at Bush airport by a buss from Mamie Eisenhower...
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...
Fiscal ABCs. The President's letter actually was written by Budget Director Percival Brundage as a result of the continuing study that Ike had originally promised. Moreover, it was fully approved by Humphrey, who thought it was just "fine." It began with some fiscal ABCs that Congress well understands but the general public probably does not: "The 1958 budget, as all Federal budgets, is in effect two budgets within...
...around 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...
...Brattle has timed Casablanca's reshowing wisely; the picture was filmed back in Humphrey Bogart's prime, and before Ingrid Bergman became an untouchable to the gossip-columnist caste. Just now, however, the temperers of public sentiment have shed tears for the late, great Bogie, because he is dead; and Miss Bergman is living her renaissance...