Word: burdened
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...dire want of any of its fellow men and women who try to maintain themselves but cannot. . . . To these unfortunate citizens aid must be extended by government-not as a matter of charity but as a matter of social duty. . . . Private charity will prove inadequate to meet the added burden of the next few months. The responsibility rests upon the State. It is idle for us to speculate upon actions which may be taken by the Federal Government. ... It is true the Federal Government may take action to eradicate some of the basic causes of our present troubles . . . may come...
...over the problem, went into his closet and hanged himself (TIME, July 27). The magazine's president & editor, Isaac Landman, editor-in-chief of the forthcoming Jewish Encyclopedia, already had accepted a call to return to the rabbinate. Who, then, could take the American Hebrew's burden upon his shoulders and lead it out of its wilderness? He should be a man respected within and without his race and faith; a man with shrewd business sense, a knowledge of publishing and the ability to raise money in large sums. Last week the American Hebrew announced that such...
Just before taking off from Friedrichshafen Dr. Eckener made a public explanation that the flight was imposing no burden of expense upon the German Republic. Three-fourths of the cost is being borne by foreign scientific bodies, he said; the remainder by stamp collectors...
...president, Norse-born E. A. Cappelen Smith, skilled developer of the Guggenheim Process; representing the Guggenheims was broad-shouldered Edward Savage of Manhattan, Cosach director. Fluently and statistically they won other nations over to their contention that Chile had been asked to bear too great a monetary burden, that there was no reason why Chile's natural nitrates should sell higher than the synthetic product. But unbudgeable was Dr. Hermann Schmitz of Germany's I. G. Farben-industrie (who last week became all Germany's financial mentor-see p. 15). When Dr. Schmitz suddenly revealed that Germany...
...least grammar school age and mentally adapted to the test," send them to Washington. All except Washington's Governor Roland H. Hartley complied. Governor Hartley said: "One of America's alarming problems is the mounting cost of public education. . . . The thought of adding to the unbearable burden by the addition of talking movies ... is inconceivable. . . . Innovations already introduced have undermined the quality of education . . . amply proved the policy of spoon feeding...