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...employment and increased prices. . . . Such a program as the huge Federal loans for 'public works' is a fearful price to pay in putting a few thousand men temporarily at work." Setting forth his own program point-by- point, President Hoover reiterated these principal items: 1) a balanced Budget; 2) no more public borrowing; 3) credit expansion by the Federal Reserve Banks; 4) local charity to relieve distress; 5) a five-day government week; 6) a Home Loan Discount system; 7) authority for Reconstruction Finance Corp. to borrow an additional billion and a half dollars to be lent States...
...been whittling the cost per man down from the neighborhood of $60 to $20. And these uniforms which enable gay graduates to appear as farmers, highlanders, marines, or Flits cost sometimes as much as two dollars. It would thus be a not inconsiderable saving in the enterprising class's budget had they negotiated the deal which would have given them Fitting costumes free of charge. The plan to turn the prestige of a Harvard class day to saving a penny has failed this year. But the Flit men may be in our midst next June, with graduate Gold Dust Twins...
...This is a poor man's budget!" declared the Finance Minister. Charging the previous Cosgrave Government with "faulty bookkeeping," he declared that the de Valera Government had found themselves faced with a "paper deficit" of ?630,000, which knocked President de Valera's plans for tax reduction to smithereens. Interrupted former Finance Minister Ernest Blythe: "Instead of a 'paper deficit' of ?630,000 we left you a surplus...
Good or bad, the MacEntee budget pleased the Laborites whose support keeps President de Valera in power. The President stuck last week to the job of keeping his other great campaign promise- his promise to abolish the Oath of Fealty to the King (TIME, Feb. 29, et seq.}. In Dublin the bill abolishing the Oath was before the Irish Senate having passed the Dail. Suddenly in London the beans were spilled by that pudgy-fingered, perennial bungler the Rt. Hon. James Henry ("Jim") Thomas, Minister of Dominions...
...assisted by whiskeys' & soda (bicarbonate). Administration affairs were just beginning to straighten out when Jim Doolittle, the President's brother-in-law, who married his sister Tess under compulsion, was arrested for 'legging in Montana. That scandal was the prelude to worse troubles. In its effort to balance the Budget, the Senate taxed landlords 50% of any rent they charged, 150% of what they got. What with Wall Street investigations, the Depression got so thick that Julius, the Secretary of Commerce, disappeared. Sole memento of him was the White House parrot who kept saying "The Depression is over! The Depression...