Word: brunt
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...veiled assurances that the President would flex out imperfections which even 'the Republican National Committee admitted were in the bill, a great new sector of U. S. industry called imperiously for a veto. Normal protestants against tariff upping are importers (i. e. department stores) who bear the brunt of higher rates, and political opponents who plead in the name of the ''consumer." Now the chorus of tariff dissent was swelled by a third and more potent group, composed of big industrialists who have saturated home markets with their production and require ever expanding foreign markets to absorb...
...brunt of the Dry attack was borne by William Seaver Woods, Digest editor. Again and again Dr. Woods insisted his magazine was neutral. "Bosh." he retorted to all Dry charges, as he carefully explained that the 20,000,000 ballots sent out were scientifically apportionated to each state on the 'basis of population, that past events had proved Digest polls 95% accurate, that duplications were infinitesimal...
Last week Secretary of Labor James John Davis had to bear the full brunt of popular feeling over unemployment. Pressed for figures he first estimated that some 3,000,000 are now jobless: "I admit .there is distressing unemployment. . . . Something like 46,000,000 individuals are earning a living in the country and certainly 43,000,000 of them are at work." Then he gave his figures a political twist: "The workers of the country need the passage of the Tariff Act to remove uncertainty. . . . Delays in tariff legislation are more responsible today for creating unemployment than any other factor...
Last week The Dartmouth (undergraduate daily) aroused by past indignities to chaperons, plumping for abolition of chaperons, editorialized: "Many of us are unwilling to ask our mothers, or anyone we respect, to bear the brunt of universal disregard, and even the shade of contempt which cannot but arise from the office of chaperon as it exists at present...
Coach Person's two All-American stars are Captain Don MacFayden and Clarence MacKenzie and these two men have been bearing the brunt of the work for Marquette. They led their team to a 3 to 1 victory over Michigan Tech early in the season and have starred in practically every game to date. Harvard beat the same Michigan Tech team 11 to 0 shortly after the Christmas recess. On comparative scores, then, Harvard has a decided advantage but it seems that Marquette was way off form when it played Tech...