Word: unspent
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...announced that when WPA uses up the sum of nearly $1,300,000,000 allotted to it out of the $4,000,000,000 work relief fund, instead of seeking new appropriations to carry WPA to June 30, he will transfer to it unspent funds allotted to other Departments-Army, Navy, Labor, Commerce...
...need for appropriations," the President simply declined, for the time being, to make an estimate of the total cost of carrying unemployed through fiscal 1937. When fiscal 1936 closes $1,103,000,000 of this year's $4,000,000,000 work relief fund will, he estimated, be unspent. This amount will be obligated for various public works, etc., undertaken but not completed. Except for this odd billion the President included no relief funds in his budget estimates. Said the President simply: "We have too recently reached our goal of putting 3,500,000 people at work...
...Moscow, Koki Hirota's big chance came last September. Foreign Minister Count Yasuya Uchida had seen his country through the Jehol invasion. He was tired. 68, and getting deaf. Premier Saito picked Koki Hirota to succeed him. Observers called it "simply the substitution of a vigorous and unspent man for one who is weary." Since the growing power of Japanese militarists forced the resignation of the last truly international-minded Foreign Minister, Kijuro Shidehara, in 1931, the basis of Japan's foreign policy has not changed one inch. She is bound to make herself master...
...Manchuria, to direct the cocky demonstration of Japan's "right to Manchuria." By last week the Manchurian job was done and Count Uchida resigned to give way to a younger Foreign Minister, Koki Hirota, onetime Ambassador to Moscow. Observers called it "simply the substitution of a vigorous and unspent man for one who was weary...
...vigorous and unspent" substitute, merry-eyed little Foreign Minister Koki Hirota, 55, is well tuned to Araki's voice. He began his career as a protégé of two famed patriots (reactionaries). Mitsuru Toyama and Ryohei Uchida (no kin to the Count), now president of the notorious Black Dragon Society. But last week the Foreign Office hastily assured foreign correspondents that the new Minister's "ideas are practical and moderate as befits a statesman who has served in Washington and Europe." And Hirota himself followed this up by calling "hopeful . . . the outlook for amity between Japan...