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...Here we are quibbling over a miserable two or three dollars," cried Dr. Lewis C. Menger, taking up the budget, "when we spend millions every years for tobacco, autos and hops." A 10% increase of budget was voted amid cheers. Other pronouncements: "The Federated Council of Churches of Christ in America appears to go far in attempting in the name of Protestantism what it condemns in Romanism"; Japan, in spite of seeming progress, is "idolatrous, superstitious, immoral...
...shouldn't squeal. If it gets more than its money's worth, it goes home in a pink haze of pleasure. If it achieves no more than a notion of the excellence of a great play, the price of admission may be written on its budget as Educational...
...matter of national economy. The entire civil service-the most rapaciously organized bureaucracy in Europe-had virtually threatened to strike if their combined salaries were not raised by the staggering total of 3,081,000,000 kronen ($445,000,000). Chancellor Ramek prudently evaded responsibility for unbalancing his budget by resigning. During the week President Michael Hainisch gave no inkling of whom he would call to the Chancellory...
...cancer deaths to the end of life. In 1924, among a similar group of persons at the age of ten, the total cancer toll would have been 8,652. That is to say, the probability of ultimately dying from cancer was increased 47.3 per cent. In 1910 the cancer budget in the life table generation of 100,000 females at the age of ten was 9,850. But under the conditions of 1924 that number increased to 11,957, or 21.4 per cent."-Louis I. Dublin, statistician of the Metropolitan Life Insurance Co., Manhattan...
There remains one finishing touch to make the Student Council Budget a success the prompt payment of the amounts pledged. Once these sums are paid pocket-books may rest content, having discharged both their philanthropic and patriotic duties for the year...