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Economy. Since 1921, Republican Administration reduced expenditures $2,000,000,000 per annum; reduced public debt $2,500,000,000; reduced Federal employes by more than 100,000; made possible reduction of taxes of $1,250,000,000 per annum; established the budget system...
...published works include The Banking System of the United States (1894), Journal of the Great War (1920), The First Year of the Budget (1922), Melody in A Major which was played by Fritz Kreisler for some time before its author was known...
...Trust Co. (Chicago) ? commission as Major in the engineers (1917) ? Pur chasing Agent for the A. E. F.* ? the Congressional War investigations (in which he made his famous "Helen Maria" remarks) ? advocacy of the Versailles Treaty and the League of Nations ? Director of the Budget ? "Dawes' report" on reparations...
Italy, like France, has two budgets. When statesmen talk of prosperity, they point with pride to the surplus in the ordinary budget; when they complain of some untoward action on the part of another nation, they refer to the deficit in the extraordinary budget. Thus, despite the much-ado over Italy's financial recovery, budgets which balance, etc., the real position (as shown by the estimates for 1924-25) is, according to Ugo Ancona in the Giornale d'Italia...
...Alfred Zimmerman, Commissioner General of Austrian Finances for the League, said that in 1922 it was not thought that Austria could have a normal budget before 1925, but that conditions were now much changed and the permanent revenue considerably increased; he thought, therefore, that higher expenditure was to some extent justifiable...