Word: mayhew
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...first two Directors of the Budget, were of the army. Last week the third Director of the Budget was chosen and he was of the army too. The tradition now seemed soundly entrenched. Director No. 1 was Brig.-Gen. Charles Gates Dawes. Director No. 2 was Brig.-Gen. Herbert Mayhew Lord. Director No. 3 is Col. James C. Roop, who will doubtless get higher rank before long. President Hoover induced him to accept "at great personal sacrifice...
...Herbert Mayhew Lord, onetime Director of the Bureau of the Budget LL.D...
...salesman get about $3,700. Anyone who gets $3,700 per year can easily remember the figure $3,700,000,000.00 because that is just one million times his salary. To remember that figure became last week a patriotic duty, because that is the figure which Brig. Gen. Herbert Mayhew Lord, funny-story-telling Director of the Budget, put down as the cost of U. S. (federal) government for the fiscal year July 1, 1929-June 30, 1930. All the columns and columns of additions and subtractions which totalled 3,700 million were placed by General Lord before President Coolidge...
...submitted bids. And when the three offers were examined, last week, Postmaster General New found that low bid was 22% less than the present contract (with Middle West Supply Co., Dayton, Ohio), would add some $5,000,000 to the shearings and scrapings so insistently demanded by Budgeteer Herbert Mayhew Lord. Postmaster General New named a committee to study the bids, probably to recommend awarding the contract to the low International Envelope Corp., subsidiary of the (world's largest) International Paper...
...Year's Day at the Treasury Department. Instead of making resolutions for the future, the Treasury custom is to review the past. Secretary Mellon issued his report on fiscal* 1928. Meantime, Brigadier-General Herbert Mayhew Lord, Director of the Budget, worked away at plans for fiscal 1929 preparatory to laying them before President Coolidge at Brule next month. Secretary Mellon began by talking about the biggest figures of all on the national ledger-the national debt. It had been reduced by $907,000,000, bringing it down to $17,604,000,000. The average rate of interest paid upon...