Word: budgets
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Dates: during 1930-1930
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Considerable gloom tempered the Christmas festivities of Fascist officials last week. II Duce had just announced in the Senate that the budget for the first five months of fiscal 1930-31 showed a deficit of $43,700,000. Salaries of all state employes from II Duce down to the humblest postman had already just been cut 12%. To offset this 43-million loss further it was announced that $15,000,000 will be lopped from the budgets of all ministries -that is, from all but the war budget. The Italian Army will cost $156,000,000 next year; the navy...
Tartly the Hoover spokesman told the Commission that a scheme which provides for "budgetary limitation" is likely to have as its chief effect the encouragement of crooked budget bookkeeping...
Navies & Personnel. While proposing to limit land and air "material" (fighting equipment) exclusively by the budget method, the Draft Convention, so far as navies are concerned, supplements "budgetary limitation" by tearing a leaf from the London Naval Treaty (TIME, April...
...matter of personnel the Draft Convention proposes that the total number of soldiers, sailors, marines, police customs officials and even forest guards (in short all armed "effectives") possessed by !each state shall be limited. Thus, within the bounds of possible crooked budget bookkeeping, the High Contracting Parties may have unlimited land and aerial weapons, but only a directly limited number of warriors...
...feed and seed but also for food. Nor could President Hoover count on support from Senate Democrats on this issue because their leader, Arkansas Senator Robinson, dropping harmony, loudly announced for the larger figure. Declared he: "Who said $25,000,000 was enough? Some one down at the budget bureau who is only interested in economy and doesn't know anything about it. I realize I'm precipitating an issue but it's going to be raised." Always more docile than the Senate, the House Agricultural Committee voted (12-to-6) in favor...