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...devotes two pages to the subject of "Outstanding Man of the Year." In your review of the various events which would designate an outstanding man for the year, did you consider the achievements of the Chinese Minister of Finance, Mr. T. V. Soong, who in addition to balancing the budget for his government, also headed the organization which repaired the ravages of the worst flood in modern history, effectively relieving the distress of 15 million flood victims and completely restoring over 5,000 mi. of dyke...
...Taxes to balance the budget...
Thrifty Frenchmen, famed for keeping their personal budgets meticulously balanced, have lately been angered, then amused by the French Treasury's "budget fantasies." Just how fantastic French finance has become was pictured in Paris' smart illustrated weekly Vu, copies of which reached the U. S. last week. Successively, as Vu points out, the French deficit for 1933 was estimated in November 1932 by Minister of the Budget Maurice Palmade at 12,100,000,000 francs; on Dec. 26 by Chairman of the Chamber's Finance Committee Lucien Lamoureux...
...into something like a toy balloon alternately blown up and permitted to deflate. During this process two French Cabinets-those of Edouard Herriot and Joseph Paul Boncour-re- soundingly fell (TIME, Dec. 26 & Feb. 6). Last week blustering, dynamic Premier Edouard Daiadier won vote after vote on the budget in the Chamber and Senate. His estimates reduced the expected deficit to a mere 5,566,000,000 francs...
...budget battling last week was grim, real, exciting. Premier Daiadier hammered the reluctant Senate into completely reversing itself on the issue of cutting half a billion francs ($19,800,000) from expenditures for national defense. Fortnight ago crusty Senate oldsters rejected this cut 168 to 129. Last week they passed it 180 to 118-amid furious gesticulations and sighs of despair from the French General Staff...