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...Budget. He found that it was his duty for the most part to prevent appropriations rather than provide them. Last week, wondering whom to put in Mr. Madden's committee chair, Republicans could think of no one possessing comparable knowledge and integrity. Choice seemed to lie between Indiana's Wood, Michigan's Cramton, Idaho's French...
Ostensibly his pungent speech of three hours' duration served merely to "open" (present) the Empire Budget for 1928. Actually he was trumpeting abroad a new political program, on the basis of which his party (Conservative) plans to appeal to the electorate...
...fervent was Mr. Churchill's mood that, when Laborites attempted to heckle him, he fairly roared: "What! you mock us, do you? Then we will advance upon you with invincible power!" Paying but small regard to modesty, Chancellor Churchill added that "possibly" his new budget program is "the most important measure to be introduced in Parliament . . . since the great Reform Bill...
Fund. Though this huge sum will not have to be budgeted until 1929, a fund from which it may be drawn was proposed, last week, by Chancellor Churchill as a feature of his new Budget. He destined for this fiscal nest egg the budgetary surplus for the year just past, amounting to ?4,250,000. Further to swell the fund, Mr. Churchill established last week, to take effect at once, an increased tax of four pence per gallon on automotive gasoline and oils-a tax which he declared will bring in ?14,404,000 ($70,000,000) this year...
...Student Council budget system which De Normandie will direct next year, was inaugurated in the fall of 1926 and has proved so successful in the past two years that it has become a fixed institution. The system is intended to facilitate the collection of funds for the various drives which occur during the year, and it is the duty of the Student Council Budget Committee to regulate this system...