Word: veterans
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Outlay. When President Hoover planned the budget for fiscal 1934 the expected outlay for the Government came to $3,257,000,000.* President Roosevelt did two things to that figure. He lopped off $360,000,000 of veteran's pensions, and he set aside in a separate budget all emergency expenses. Last week's budget message estimated the Government's ordinary expenses (the cost of running its various departments, of paying veterans' pensions, interest on U. S. obligations, etc.) at the comparatively modest figure...
...from the azure waters of Capri last week bald, cerebral British Foreign Secretary Sir John Simon rose on the wings of an Italian seaplane piloted by Ace Major Attilio Biseo, veteran of the Balbo flight to Chicago. Beside Sir John sat the Duke of San Vito, a secretary in Il Duce's Foreign Office. To discuss Dictator Mussolini's bold plan to "reform" the League of Nations (TIME, Dec. 18) Sir John had come from London, pausing to enjoy the holidays at Capri before getting to business...
Playing its first league game of the season, the Crimson ice forces will meet a veteran Princeton sextet at Princeton tomorrow night. Although to date the Tigers have displayed a brand of hockey superior to Harvard's, the great improvement of the team as a whole, evident in the contest with B.U. last Wednesday, would seem to indicate that tomorrow's encounter will find the Crimson stickmen more eager and ready to do business than it has been so far this season...
...mind about issues like unemployment insurance, and other aspects of the Albany days make us realize that the quoted remark of Walter Lippmann about a pleasant gentleman who had no important qualifications for the Presidency was not completely wrong then. Presidential treatments of last June's compromise on veteran's cuts and of the abandonment of the tariff agreement bill, as well as the abdication of the vital tax issue on the recovery bill are all glossed over a bit, though not seriously...
...Dorothy Massingham and Murray MacDonald; produced by Jed Harris). In this sincere, intelligent but somewhat rambling play, there are two powerful scenes. One occurs when Stella Surrege (Katharine Hepburn), who has broken off a sticky love affair with a horsey neighbor (Geoffrey Wardwell) to marry a kindly, understanding War veteran with ?15,000 a year, discovers that she loves her new husband John Clayne . (Colin Clive). It is an hour after their wedding, on a rainy September afternoon. Stella and John are standing under a leaky marquee. Laughing together, they get into their car to go away. The car skids...