Word: burden
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...payment of pensions and interest or reparations loans, attributable to Germany under the terms of the Treaty of Versailles. This Special Budget calls for $639,324,000 and as the French do not expect the Germans to pay any of this sum is will be a deadweight burden. The ordinary budget, however, places the sum of $157,500,000 at the disposal of the Special Budget. Thus, the deficit for reparations after subtracting the advance from the ordinary budget and the surplus on the ordinary budget, will leave the Government faced with a deficit...
...Germany refuses to oblige, the English government, in daily Cabinet meetings, is wrestling with the problem which has disturbed Europe since the war Franco-German relations involving particularly the questions of security and reparations. During 1921 and 1922 England suffered a severe trade depression brought on largely by the burden of taxation. With the coming of 1923 and the revival of hope for prosperity, the European market was further disturbed by the French invasion of the Ruhr. Economically England needs European recovery and it is Mr. Baldwin's great ambition to further this recovery by solving the reparations problem...
...early years of its existence, peerage was regarded as a burden, for individuals were summoned to sit in the House of Lords more or less at random, the tenure continuing for no definite space of time, and bringing with it no dignity. But soon it was recognized that the office carried with it a certain honor and opportunity for advancement. Gradually the titles became permanent, and finally hereditary, until the right to a seal in the House of Lords by right of ancestry has been sanctioned by constitutional usage...
...Committee which acted as judges and selected the prize-winning compositions was composed of Professor E. E. Day, G. '09, of the Department of Economics; Professor A. N. Holcombe '06, of the Department of Government; Professor H. R. Tosdal, G. '15, of the Business School; Mr. C. G. Burden '11; and Assistant Dean C. P. Biddle of the Business School...
...Burden, Burden Iron...