Word: burdens
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...small but outstanding group of some of America's rich men are now seeking, by the expenditure of vast sums of money, to secure the repeal of the 18th Amendment. This would evidently shift the burden of taxation from their own shoulders to the backs of the poor...
...Today the burden is without conscience shifted to the worker, who after giving his labor for miserable financial results, is turned off to starve or beg. Thus, the machine, which might have been used to lift the load of poverty from the backs of all people, has been used selfishly for the benefit...
...Public attention should also be constantly called to the economic side of the liquor business. While we stir the moral sense we ought also to arouse the financial sense of the burden bearers of the business world. The care for the dissipated criminal classes, spawned upon society by this ruinous business, falls chiefly upon the sober and industrious. The burden imposed upon the resources of the American people by the liquor business far exceeds the cost of maintaining all the armies of Europe. Once let the American people realize how they are held up and robbed by this highwayman...
...high rates assessed for 1928 and 1929. Organizing them for mass action, their leaders argued that only $500,000,000 of Cook County's 16 billions in personal property was being taxed by the authorities and that until real estate was relieved of its excessive tax burden, its owners would pay little or nothing to the support of local government. Mrs. Cisar's case forged to the front for a court test. Last December a Cook County judge sustained her refusal to pay taxes, thereby invalidating the 1928-29 assessments on the ground that they were "reeking with...
Ever since scrappers set upon Britain's R-100 with hammer & tongs, Germany and the U. S. have alone borne the burden of dirigible development. But last week Russia hove upon the dirigible scene. Comrade Pourmal, recently appointed Soviet Chief of Dirigible Construction, issued a bold pronunciamento...