Word: burden
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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With the added burden of the Refugee students, it is not too soon for Brooks House to begin planning for next year. Ideally the members of the Foreign Student Committee should be on hand several days before registration to help the newcomers find rooms and to advise them on such routine matters as where to eat, where to deposit their funds, and how to find their way about the Square. Since a majority of the foreign students take graduate courses, men in each of the graduate schools should be enlisted to help, and the support of the deans...
...reciprocal tax immunity of Federal, State and municipal salaries and securities. He wrote: "A fair and effective progressive income tax and a huge perpetual reserve of tax-exempt bonds could not exist side by side. Those who earn their livelihood from Government should bear the same tax burden as those who earn their livelihood in private employment." The President reminded Congress that unless it acts before March 15. salaries paid by quasi-public bodies like the Port of New York Authority will, by last year's decision of the Supreme Court, be subject to Federal income tax retroactively...
...total amount of debt (public and private) is no greater than in 1929: "As you know, our national income is only 60 billion dollars, whereas for 1929 it was 80 billion dollars. The income out of which these debts must be paid has shrunken 20 billion dollars. . . . Our burden is the same. Our strength is much less...
...wildly enthusiastic teammates, and a squadron of reporters was besieging everyone with questions. Through it all,--the quarter-mile race that clinched the meet for Brown, the ovation that followed it, and the tiring session with representatives of the press afterwards--the man who was bearing the heaviest burden of the loss was standing erect and calm, surprisingly unruffled...
...undoubtedly in recognition of the prime importance of prose composition, as well as the deplorable deficiency of the average student in its mastery, that the Faculty Council has bestowed new dignity upon much-maligned English A. Hitherto the course has been a fifth leg, an extra burden which less fortunate Freshmen were forced to bear like a vestigial organ. Now, decrees the Council, it shall count toward a degree, More important than this, its exemption requirements have been raised, so that a considerable increase in the percentage of first year men taking the course is to be expected...