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Flood Control. Directly affecting the Treasury, and therefore the degree of wise tax reduction, is the most pressing extra-budget item of all flood control in the Mississippi Basin. The Administration's $296,400,000 program, of which the States benefited were to pay $37,080,000, besides furnishing rights of way, was scrapped in February by the House Committee on Flood Control and replaced by an expansive $473,000,000 program, to be borne entirely by the U. S. This measure President Coolidge promised to veto. Senator Jones of Washington then tried his hand at the problem...
...Current budget receipts in Poland already show a surplus over expenditures of 214,000,000 zloty ($24,010,800) which is expected to reach 300,000,000 when complete returns are available for the fiscal year...
...status as a minor sport golf resembles polo. The machinery of each makes it caviar to the general, and thus neither has any financial rating in an athletics-for-all policy. Although golf must be content with its present lot in the Harvard budget, one indirect benefit has appeared. Greens fees and expensive course privileges may have put' golf on an undemocratic basis, but the sport not enjoyed by the many is given a clear position of importance that is, if nothing else, honorary...
...twelve years after his first unsuccessful effort, he tried again and was elected governor. His two terms as State executive, which began in 1917, were marked by a systematic reorganization of the State government. The changes which he introduced included the establishment of the budget system, the reorganization of 108 overlapping bureaus into nine permanent departments, the planning of public works on a State-wide basis and similar reforms...
Lowden led the field on some of the early ballots in the Republican convention, but thereafter faded rapidly, as the risks of carrying the onus of the Lowden campaign budget became increasingly self-evident. Beyond reproach on the score of private honor. Lowden saw the nomination lost because the honor of his candidacy was in dispute...