Word: save
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Like a worried householder, the U.S. Government has often shaken its head and clucked over the cost of its housekeeping. But it has rarely done anything about it. One of the prime reasons is patronage; efficiency and economy would save money, but they would also cost votes. If the U.S. is going to spend more on its neighbors abroad, however, it must economize at home. The U.S. is now getting the first chapters of the most comprehensive guidebook in its history on how to streamline operations and save money...
Last week, 74-year-old Herbert Hoover emerged from this governmental jungle to give Harry Truman a preliminary report at the White House. He had a number of recommendations. Shedding of unnecessary red tape on small Government purchases could save $250 million a year. It now costs $11.20 to process an order for a $10 purchase. Perhaps $3 billion could be saved by regrouping 60 administrative agencies into about...
Harry Truman gave his blessing to the reorganization plan; he would be glad to save the people's money and his own time. But the big test on establishing efficiency and economy lay not with the President but with Congress. Early in January, the Hoover Commission would make its full report. Most of the proposed changes would require congressional approval. Thousands of jobs would be wiped out. It remained to be seen how far politicians would go to save money...
...during the 1928 presidential campaign for Alfred E. Smith: "I spoke in Atlanta twice last Wednesday and there is an appalling amount of vile propaganda in circulation ... I have had a difficult time turning down the Governorship [of New York], letters and telegrams by the dozen begging me to save the situation by running, but I have been perfectly firm...
...Suchow commanders on the wire. His orders: leave the city at once, burn what supplies could not be taken along, seek out the Communist armies to the south and engage them. These were new, last-ditch tactics. It was kill or be killed. Nothing less would save Nanking and Nationalist China from imminent fall...