Word: burdened
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Exempt from overtime pay employes who get $200 or more a month in guaranteed salaries (as distinguished from variable wages), thus removing an expensive and vexatious burden from employers without lessening benefits to low-paid workers...
...that the change may well mean higher payroll taxes than those now planned to peak at 3% each on employes and employers in 1949. To even matters up he took another suggestion of the Advisory Council, advised that at some future date the U. S. Government should share the burden with employers and employes; that is, meet part of the expense by indirect rather than direct taxes on prospective beneficiaries...
...group of nine Manhattan physicians including Drs. Ernst Philip Boas and Henry Rawle Geyelin of Columbia, and Drs. Foster Kennedy and Henry Barker Richardson of Cornell sent Manhattan colleagues a mimeographed campaign sheet of brief, basic arguments for health insurance. Compulsory health insurance, they said, would lower the "financial burden of illness by spreading the cost over . . . large groups of people. It would enable the sick to seek medical treatment early in disease. ... It would enable the physician to give more adequate care to [poor] patients because such care would not entail an added financial burden to the patient...
...further concessions are made to labor, and these seem inevitable. Moreover the University is committed to continue T. S. E. P. for at least another year. For this reason the University is negotiating for raises to take effect in September, thereby relieving this year's budget of unexpected burden and allowing time to consider and fix a new meal rate...
...long it can stave off the fatal day is uncertain. It is time for the intelligentsia to realize its responsibilities. Civilization must be left to its own devices no longer. It is up to Phi Beta Kappa men to recognize their Key as the wise man's burden, which is altogether too ponderous to dangle from a mere watchchain, and altogether too potent to have no other...