Word: spending
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Outgo. In fiscal 1940 the Government hopes to spend nearly half a billion less than this year-$8,995,000,000. With the world becoming unsafe for democracy again, biggest increase will be in national defense, and a real beanstalk in Franklin's garden is now interest on the national debt, which in 1940 will...
Their Majesties, King George VI and Queen Elizabeth, announced last week the official itinerary of next spring's American tour: 45 days from Plymouth to Plymouth. Disembarking from H.M.S. Repulse at Quebec on May 15, they will spend 29 jampacked days seeing and being seen in Canada from coast to coast, sandwich in four days on U. S. soil, wave final farewells to St. Johns, Newfoundland, June...
...that the old President remain in Chile until six months after termination of office; 5) considered recognition of the Soviet Union; 6) put into effect a nationwide reduction in bread prices; 7) raised hours of employment of Federal workers to eight a day; 8) ruled that Cabinet Ministers must spend three hours each day receiving the public in order "to keep in touch with the masses"; 9) gave tacit approval to the appointment of a Communist as Mayor of Valparaiso, a Socialist as Mayor of Vina...
Knowing well that he would be roasted to a turn in the Senate for his tax-spend-elect slogan, but expecting to be confirmed eventually by about a 2-to-1 vote, Mr. Hopkins dived at his new job with all speed. He announced he would retain "Uncle Dan" Roper's impressive Business Advisory Council, most of whose many members are "close personal friends." He asked his specially close friend, W. Averell Harriman, board chairman of the Union Pacific Railroad Co. and also of the Advisory Council, to come to Washington as soon as convenient. He hired able Political...
...Congress created the job of U. S. Comptroller General and gave him the duty of passing on all Government expenditures to make sure they conformed to the law. So Congress tried to keep the power of the purse in its own hands. Result when Franklin Roosevelt began to spend was an awful series of squabbles between the open-handed New Deal and crusty Comptroller General John Raymond McCarl. When Mr. McCarl's 15-year term of office expired two and a half years ago, Franklin Roosevelt did not bother to appoint a successor. In his great Reorganization Bill...