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...President on East 64th Street. The seagoing President ordered the Coast Guard specially mobilized to search for these neighbors. ¶Secretary of the Treasury Woodin was an overnight guest at Hyde Park. He assured newshawks that currency inflation was not even being contemplated at present. Another Presidential visitor was Budget Director Douglas who was instructed to keep regular 1935 government costs below $2,500,000,000. A third caller was Governor Montagu Norman of the Bank of England, escorted by Governor Harrison of the New York Federal Reserve Bank. Last week Britain ceased pegging the pound. ¶To speed...
Milwaukee's troubles stemmed largely from Mayor Hoan's refusal to cut city salaries beyond the voluntary 10% deduction set aside for relief. Taxpayers had to resort to the initiative & referendum to chip $7,000,000 off the 1933 budget. Municipal employes went unpaid during April, May and June while, the city hoarded cash to meet its bond interest payments. A grand jury, discovering a $500,000 embezzlement of city funds, indicted Comptroller Louis M. Kotecki for failing to discover the loss in his treasury audits. One day two months ago Kotecki shot himself dead after wounding...
...When the apes go, so will the British" is another belief to which Gibraltar's polyglot population fondly clings. Sensible Britishers smile tolerantly, take no chances on the apes disappearing. Food for them is a standard item in Gibraltar's colonial budget...
Uncle Sam says, "I have to balance my budget." But doesn't Mr. Private Citizen have a budget too? Isn't it just as important to him as it is to the largest employer in the world to spend no more than he makes...
Citizen Sato-Japan's John Citizen- likes his country's forays into China, its big army and navy, but he never liked the casualty lists, the crushing taxes. He gasped fortnight ago when the Navy asked for its all-time high in budget appropriations: $190,400,000. The Government will not vote on the new budget until next winter. In the meantime it gave the Army and Navy free rein to try to supplant Citizen Sato's fear of taxes with another fear, more favorable to big Navy budgets. For three days last week Tokyo, the world...