Word: burdened
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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President Hoover took a hand at straightening out what was threatening to become a serious snarl within Reconstruction Finance Corp. over railroad loans. The trouble started when banks showed a tendency to call their short-term credits to the carriers and leave the full burden of relief up to the R. F. C. Estimates of the relief needed by railroads ran as high as a billion dollars for 1932 alone. Reports were current that President Dawes was willing to have R. F. C. assume this full financial load with no stickling over collateral, whereas Board Chairman Meyer felt that...
...authors complain about the tedious slowness with which their books are printed. Catalogues and other routine work, occupying about a fourth of the yearly output of the presses, delay the publication of more important books. The proof readers of the Press are often inaccurate and a large burden of the work falls upon the writer. Because the cost of printing is unconscionably high, remuneration to the author is small or altogether lacking. Moreover the type of the books is often redistributed after a small edition is published, before there is time to discover whether demand warrants reprints...
...bill has at last disturbed the Congressional peace "that passeth all understanding". Republicans and Democrats alike have deserted their leaders, and the House has raised the income tax to war-time rates, threatening to vote down the sales tax. The cry is "to" place the burden of taxation where it belongs". If they succeed the opposition will place all the burden of taxation on incomes and ignore completely the proposed sales tax. This safe and reasonable course seems likely to be chosen in spite of the opposition of the Administration...
...federal taxation, which results in the diversion of capital from production to tax-free government securities. But these are minor points in the light of the dangers of the sales tax. The tax directly affects those elements of the public most likely to make violent protest against the increased burden. Protest will hardly take from as a demand for more economical and efficient government, though it is obvious that without governmental reform the solution of the tax problem can not be permanent. But instead of demanding that expensive subsidies to veterans and bureaucratic, extravagance be abolished, the cry will...
...position of authorities in other communities. It indicates, however, a growing impatience on the part of educators with those who continually misuse opportunities provided at public expense. If some definite power of removal could be granted to officials in public schools, American education would be freed from the burden imposed by the pernicious influence of educational vagrants on the standards of the public school system...