Word: burdened
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Barclay Hotel-Piccadilly restaurant that caters to the ultra-elite and the super-wealthy-Mr. and Mrs. James Abercrombie Burden, at whose Long Island mansion the Prince will stay during his visit to the U. S., gave a dinner party for their Royal guest, presented him with a gold Yale key to the front door...
...unprecedented sum of about $500,000,000. . . . "The people have never come to a full realization of the importance of the Washington Conference. It produced the one effective agreement among the great Powers in all the history of civilization for relieving the people of the earth from the enormous burden of maintaining competitive naval armaments. ... A policy was adopted which was more than revolutionary. It was sublime...
...call Belad-es-Sudan, "country of the blacks." Under purely Egyptian rule, the Sudan became a den of iniquity in which inefficiency, slavery and corruption ran rampant. The population dwindled and the country, instead of providing a source of income for the Egyptian Government, 'became a tremendous financial burden...
...Reduction. "When a reduction in the burden of income taxes could no longer be denied, the country was presented with the Mellon bill, offered by the Administration to the people as the last word on that subject. When it met the test of impartial analysis, here, too, there appeared the motive to favor the few possessors of swollen incomes beyond the many of moderate means...
...United States. I could do this by maintaining a large standing army. I am opposed to any such plan. I am trying to work out a method by which we can have constantly, as we now have, an exceedingly small army, and leave our citizens free from that burden by letting them assume their own responsibility for a defensive establishment sufficient to provide for domestic peace and order and national defense...