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...theme of each mayor was the same: municipal credit with local banks was exhausted. Default on municipal securities loomed.∙ Taxpayers were on a silent strike. The cost of unemployment relief continued to soar. Jobs and salaries had been cut and cut again and still the municipal budget would not stay balanced for a week at a time...
Part Two of the National Recovery Act was President Roosevelt's colossal public works program. For this purpose $3,300,000,000 was to be raised by Federal bond issues which, with other "extraordinary" budget expenditures, would probably put the Public Debt to an all-time high.* The proceeds were to be lent to states, counties and municipalities on a 30-to-70 basis. It was estimated that each billion dollars would put 1,000,000 men to work constructing bridges, laying roads, clearing slums, eliminating grade crossings, building war ships. Private industry was to get no cash from...
...week's events brought Premier Daladier plenty besides Hitler to ponder. First there was the domestic situation. The existence of a French Premier, never too secure, becomes most critical at Budget time. France's budget, under consideration by the Senate for two weeks, comes up again for discussion by the Deputies this week. It cannot be balanced for 1953: as passed by the Senate last week it contained a deficit of $156,710,400. French Socialists under long-nosed Léon Blum served notice on the Radical-Socialist* Government of Premier Daladier that they would not support...
...impetus toward acquainting himself with his duties. This obstacle, of course, cannot be removed at once, although the Adviser might easily be allowed more than the two free meals which they are at present permitted to take with their charges in the Union, without too heavily straining the University budget. Another reason for complaint is that the Advisers are too often men out of touch with the student's side of the elementary courses, and far too busy to devote the necessary time to him. This difficulty is gradually being obviated by the introduction of men who teach the Freshman...
Without spending a cent of the vast propaganda funds demanded in the new French budget, France last week was in the most favorable international position she has held since...