Word: spending
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Save for the discomforts incident to following such a versatile leader as Franklin Roosevelt, Joseph Robinson can congratulate himself today on one of the most comfortable places in public life. Some two months of the year he and his wife spend in their rambling, old-fashioned frame house in Little Rock. He also finds time to travel abroad as a statesman, a taste which he acquired from attending Interparliamentary Union conferences in England and serving as delegate to the London Disarmament Conference in 1930. For fun he likes nothing better than to go fishing and shooting (he is a crack...
...following morning Franklin Roosevelt was shocked when he looked at his newspapers in bed. Editors were volubly aghast at such haste. Some pointed out that nearly four months was the average time to spend in preparing an important tax bill. "It took Six Days to Make the World!" warned the Roosevelt-loving New York Daily News. Crudest cut of all, the President got from his favorite and usually sympathetic columnist, Walter Lippmann in the Herald Tribune, when he read...
...deficit was $409,000,000 smaller than in 1934 because revenues increased $697,000,000 and the New Deal had been unable to spend money as fast as it thought it could...
...been bestowed so much self-rule that Professor Stephen Leacock has grounds for wondering whether America eventually will have a group of 'Balkans' to the North. . . . Last year, collectively, our ten governments and nearly 4,000 municipalities collected approximately $690,000,000 in taxes. Did they spend it all? Did they! All of it, and a combined deficit of something like...
...Chancellor he had done a good, progressive job of building University of Denver up from a "street car college" into a serviceable university. No scholar, prophet or pioneer, he had yet won his colleagues' respect by proving himself an able, diplomatic administrator. Last week he soothingly promised to spend a year looking over the situation in Oregon. "A new chancellor ought not to make, and will not make, any changes in the current policies," said he. "What has been done thus far under the able guidance of Dr. Kerr and the State Board has unusual significance, as the foundation...