Word: totalizer
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Outgo. Total expenditures for fiscal 1938 are now estimated at $7,345,000.000, an increase of $89,000,000 over the original budget figure but $656,000,000 below fiscal 1937. Most conspicuous feature of the President's outgo schedule was that, although spending for Recovery & Relief has been slashed $1,139,000,000 from the previous fiscal year, other government spending continued to mount by nearly $500,000,000. As the President pointedly observed, a good part of this could be blamed on Congress...
Since the April budget estimate was submitted, $208,000,000 of expenditures have been knocked off by Administrative action and another $115,000,000 by bookkeeping adjustments in the Old Age Reserve Account, a total reduction of $323,000,000. But reduced interest rates on loans to farmers will cost the budget $40,000,000; extension of PWA, $25,000,000; social security tax refunds. $36.000,000; the Railroad Retirement Act, $113,000,000; cotton loans...
...Reform Republican Mayor Harold Hitz Burton was embarrassed when his Democratic opponent, Engineer John O. McWilliams, accused him of collecting a "slush fund" to swing votes in tough wards. The Board of Elections, investigating, found that Mayor Burton had spent $12,860 more than he had reported, bringing his total to $41,212. Cried Engineer McWilliams, who reported an expenditure of $4,700: "The Mayor is carriying deception and falsification even into his campaign." Mayor Burton's campaign treasurer explained that he had borrowed and supplied the $12,860 personally. Betting odds continued to favor Mayor Burton...
...among U. S. municipal political bosses is white-haired, jaunty Edward Hull Crump of Memphis. Tenn. Boss Crump has controlled all the elective offices in Tennessee's biggest city for the past 30 years. With some 60,000 votes, more than a quarter of the State's total, to rely on, he has been able to decide any Tennessee election in which the State was not solidly against him. In over 60 city and State elections, his machine has never been defeated...
...last gubernatorial election, with an absolute maximum of ⅛ of 1% of the population. Object of Governor Browning's unit plan was to enlarge the voting power of rural districts, put a crimp in the Crump vote by reducing it from approximately 25% of the State total...