Word: burdening
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Under "Fiscal" (TIME, Jan. 20), I read what you had to say about taxes and the budget . . . : "He [Franklin Roosevelt] termed the U. S. tax burden 'moderate' compared to other countries-somewhat as a doctor might advise a patient suffering from pneumonia in one lung that other people had double pneumonia...
Instead of the usual summing up the year's activities at Harvard, President Conant devoted the burden of his report to defining the function of a university in this time of crisis. There must be no compromising of the ideals for which democracy stands, he announced, and the university must serve as a watchful guard over the "eternal verities." Concretely, this means that Harvard must not again be turned into a mere "armed camp," no matter how the world situation develops. It mean that liberal universities must be more than just technological training schools for the development of better soldiers...
...balanced budget. Franklin Roosevelt held to precedent-he didn't mention it, either. In its place he substituted a picture of a fertile, high tableland of national income, its rare air oxygenated by Federally subsidized public works, after defense spending ends. He termed the U. S. tax burden "moderate" compared to other countries -somewhat as a doctor might advise a patient suffering from pneumonia in one lung that other people had double pneumonia...
Consulate in that increasingly important port. Reports from China said that no less than 3,000 trucks were negotiating the trans-Mongolian route. It was a safe bet that a good many of that 3,000 were "fleshy trucks" of the Orient: mules, donkeys, camels, horses and men of burden...
...more oil taxpayers bought, the more SICO would prosper, and the more relief taxpayers would get from the burden of supporting their schools. Last week he sent to 62 school boards in Lancaster County the first installment of profits from his new trust. The gifts totalled $20,000. ranged from...