Word: burdens
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Local Government, represented by the Mayors of 26 important U. S. cities, met in Detroit last week to beg the Federal Government for a helping hand to carry the burden of urban unemployment and public distress. The meeting was called by aggressive, hard-bitten Mayor Frank Murphy of Detroit, which has spent itself almost to the brink of bankruptcy supporting its needy.* On hand among the 20 Democrats, four Republicans, one Socialist and one Farmer-Laborite, were New York's Walker, Boston's Curley, Richmond's Bright, Syracuse's Marvin, New Orleans' Walmsley, Miami's Gautier, Milwaukee's Hoan, Cleveland...
Died. James Abercrombie Burden, 61. sportsman, longtime president of Burden Iron Co.; of an embolism; in Syosset, L. I. On his estate stayed Edward of Wales...
...though a change is evidently desired by students, no action has been taken on the matter. The most practical plan for liberalization of the rules must allow House members to dine as the guests of friends living in other Houses, and at the same time remove the financial burden which new checks the hospitality of too many students. There must be certain restrictions, a limitation, consonant with the spirit of the House Plan, which will prevent one from absenting himself from his own House too often, and which will prevent any particular House from becoming a meal-time Mecca because...
Because the present method of placing the burden of the cost on the host is disliked by the House members, and because it may in some degree be harmful to the College, the CRIMSON has advocated that new rulings be adopted. The most attractive plan proposed would allow the guest to sign for his own meals and count them on his own quota. At the same time he would not be permitted to eat more than three meals each week in a House other than his own, and he might be required to pay a small surcharge to cover...
There are times for the Vagabond, as for every man, when the apple turns to ashes on his palate, when the burden and the mystery prey on his spirit. He turns from the shallow comfort of the penny-a-liners to the mordant voice of Housman. Like Archduke's cousin, he sees the symbol of it all in a handfull of dust. Like Swift, he celebrates his birthday as a time of mourning, and all neighbors join in. Life is a poor thing, bitter and mocking and the phrase of Solon runs in his mind...