Word: burdens
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...want, a harassed and long-suffering President last week carried his case for reelection. For three years he had hugged his desk tighter than any chief executive ever did. The country had lost sight of him as a human being. Since his renomination in June he had left the burden of his campaign to nonelective Cabinet members who could not ask for votes in their own right. All their warm words failed to bring to life the silent, remote figure in Washington. Now, barely a month before the election and with the political tide running against him, he at last...
...Bearing the white man's burden," if it involved ruthless exploitation in fact, was in theory at least a fifty percent altruistic process. It has given way to an open and unashamed "dollar diplomacy" for which there can be no excuse on other than selfish grounds. The Marines putting down Haitian and Nicaraguan "bandits" and the Japanese subduing Chinese "bandits" are instruments of similar policies. Manifest destiny calls and kindly paternalism answers with guns if need...
...Only wise and timely Federal aid has averted the financial break-down of important systems. This situation touches every citizen. . . . The relief that the present emergency has made it necessary to grant to the railroads is a drain on the Federal Treasury and any ultimate loss will constitute a burden on every taxpayer. The present deplorable position of the railroads is not due wholly to stagnation of traffic. . . . Many of the present ills are due to governmental, financial, labor and management policies, some wrong in conception, some wrong in application, and others rendered obsolete by radically changed conditions. . . . No solution...
...alternative to this plan is to put a pay telephone in each entry. Many entries of the old Freshman Dormitories are thus fitted, and the plan works very well. It is open to the serious criticism of course, that it is a great burden to the man living nearest the telephone, upon whom all the burden of answering, incoming calls is laid...
...most tremendous burden which an aging person must carry, thinks Dr. Walter Richard Miles of Stanford University, is "the feeling of inferiority and insecurity due to the decrease in physical strength and energy." But such burden is unnecessary. To showing why, Dr. Miles devoted his presidential address before the American Psychological Association at Ithaca, N. Y. last week. For one thing, the latter half of human life has been "scientifically neglected. Psychologists have exhibited great interest in the first two and a half decades of life. But this still leaves five or six decades of human adult life relatively untouched...