Word: burdened
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...first New Deal agencies was Home Owners' Loan Corp., formed to furnish urban mortgage relief by issuing its bonds in exchange for distress mortgages. Under John H. Fahey, a New England publisher, banker and shipbuilder, HOLC has lifted almost one-fifth of the U. S. home-mortgage burden, has brought relief to 862,000 small homeowners. Last November, with $2,000,000,000 of its $3,000,000,000 capitalization already dispersed and 400,000 cases pending to use up the rest, HOLC suspended all applications for loans. By March, 30% of HOLC's debtors were...
Harvard may be wrong to admit these men in the first place but she cannot weight the burden of those admitted on insufficient proof. If a candidate is accepted, he must have met the minimum standards for entrance. Should any candidate lower the standards, he does not belong in Cambridge. To require a fifth course from a large group of Freshmen is a confession of inadequate standards and this group either has no place or that fifth course must be counted for credit. The CRIMSON prefers the latter solution...
...Columbus, Ohio the members of the National Advisory Council on Radio in Education and the Institute for Education by Radio met in joint convention to wring their hands over the bloody adventures of Dick Tracy, the struggles of Little Orphan Annie, the blood-curdling mysteries of Chandn the Magician. Burden of the complaint was that Junior loses his play hours hanging over the radio, bolts his supper, gets so excited he cannot sleep...
...mask a crook's identity keeps mounting. Director John Edgar Hoover of the U. S. Bureau of Investigation writes severe letters to medical journals threatening to jail surgeons who aid crooks in this way. He puts squarely upon the shoulders of all plastic surgeons the burden of discovering whether or not their patients are law breakers. Perturbed, Commissioner Lewis Valentine of New York City's police department last week summoned the president of the American Society of Oral & Plastic Surgeons, Dr. Joseph Eastman Sheehan, to tell the force what was possible...
Chief reason for expecting a recession before the "great revival" was that automobile production had passed its spring peak. To an enormous extent the automobile industry has been carrying the burden of recovery. Of 26 U. S. corporations reporting March-quarter earnings at the best figure in five years, the Wall Street Journal discovered, no less than 17 were either motormakers or companies dependent in large measure on the motor industry. In the first four months automobile production was about 1,570,000 units, a 37% gain over the same period of last year. Sales to consumers, however, were only...