Word: burdened
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Individual states have a clear responsibility to shoulder the burden of welfare and administer local relief. Local units of public work programs should be set up, financed solely by state appropriations for this purpose. The federal government thus free from such extraordinary drain on the treasury, could confine their abundant energies to a more fruitful pursual of normal government functions--an excellent antidote for business and recovery...
...expense of a project to supply commuters with suitable quarters is the most important consideration. The University should not be expected to bear the entire burden but should rightly insist that some portion of the total expense should be borne by those benefitting. A not unreasonable expenditure could be made by the University's contribution of a building for the use of the commuters. The maintenance of the quarters could be delegated to those who make use of them without any great burden to those concerned...
...conducted through contracts signed between representatives of the employers' syndicates and the workers' syndicates in Italian industry. Since the worker gets the same hourly wage while his week's salary is less by eight hours' pay, the experiment is not an added burden to the employer, as was the case when a shorter week with the same weekly pay was tried in the United States, and it does not increase the price of goods. It does entail a burden on the worker, but we have simultaneously endeavored to better the lot of the worker...
...produce their "goods,"--intelligence, skill, and character among their pupils, had been curtailed during the depression. The reason for the curtailment was "in part the inability of large numbers to pay taxes, combined with the desire of those able to pay taxes to escape what they regard as a burden." His reference was, of course, only to the educational facilities supported by the government...
When dollar diplomacy and the white man's burden led us to take the far-flung Philippines to our bosom there was considerable doubt whether the Constitution followed the flag. Mr. Dooley was asked what he thought about the problem. After considering a moment the humorist replied that he didn't know about that, but he was sure that the Supreme Court followed the election returns. Mr. Dooley apparently not only had a keen insight into his times but the ability to grasp and aptly phrase that which would have meaning for successive generations. Yesterday's "gold decisions" bear ample...