Word: burdening
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...promising field event will be the shot put with the pair of powerhouses, Dick Pfister and Sophomore John Shattuck, bearing the brunt of the burden. Each has surpassed 45 feet and Tom O'Loughlin is steadily approaching it. This same trio will hurl the discus, but their record there is less assuring...
...Note: The Crimson agrees that the burden of the responsibility rests with Naval Academy authorities. Mr. Bingham's statement following tonight's meeting of the Committee on Athletic Sports should further clarify his position...
Said he: "The burden I am compelled to impose is vitally necessary, not only to meet our financial position but to secure a reduction in consumption." No crocodile tears were these. One of the chief perils of war is inflation: rising prices because the supply of goods is inadequate. One way to keep prices down is to cut the public's purchasing power. This is a device with which Hitler has forestalled a new German inflation for several years past, and Britain had to come to it. Britain's new taxes, said Sir Kingsley frankly, are not intended...
...local governments) under an ingenious system by which landowners will make their own assessments, with the Government reserving the right to buy the land if the assessments are considered too low. This will bring to the central Government revenue which it badly needs. It should put the burden of taxation on the class which can best afford it-the landlords, who have been virtually tax-exempt because they control the local governments, who do most of the speculating in grain and who force their peasantry to pay as much as 60% of their crops for rent (including "protection...
...letter which Franklin Roosevelt sent to Congress three years ago asking that the committee be set up. Both friends & foes joined in criticism. Editorialized the conservative New York Times: "TNEC . . . proposes to stimulate private enterprise by adopting . . . more . . . Federal controls that have already done so much to burden . . . new enterprise." Said New Dealers Leon Henderson and Isador Lubin, who served on the committee but were too busy with defense work to bother with the final recommendations: "Surely it should be possible, with all this great wealth of evidence ... to offer a concrete program geared to the needs of our time...