Word: burdens
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Germany has again protested against the burden that the reparation payments place upon her people and now declares that the limit of privation has been reached. Senator Borah, chairman of the committee on foreign affairs, took immediate notice of this plea. He reiterated the old but forceful objections to the reparations as placing a burden on Germany without helping the recipients of the payments and as a possible cause of the seriousness and extensiveness of the depression. With a touch of demagoguery but with none the less soundness he pleaded for the reduction of the debts that "ground down into...
...debt on Germany they were not wreaking vengeance on some barbarous huns who had strung babies up by the toes and wantonly destroyed everything in their path. With the return to sanity they have found that the debt was merely an imposition on a people like themselves of a burden which did much harm and no good. Idealism is no longer tolerated as a defense for the terms which France insisted be exacted from Germany...
...Hallowell, who finished 12 yards ahead of a large field in the mile race at the I. C. 4A games. Dodge and Kollmyer, lending quarter-milers, will again be available. Record will have assistance from Grady in the hurdles; the loss of Wackins by graduation will leave the burden in the dashes, one of the Crimson's weaker points, on Forbes With Cobh gone, Hallowell will be counted on for the half mile event. Fox Barrie, Foote, and Fains will all return to add strength to the squad which has given the Crimson clean sweeps in the distance runs
Another figure present was Professor Willis Rodney Whitney, nonresident professor of chemical research at Massachusetts Institute of Technology, director of General Electric's research laboratories. Professor Whitney also received a Franklin Medal. The burden of his talk (he is a diffident speaker, Sir James a fluent one) was that there are infinite opportunities for useful and amusing work in industrial laboratories for willing young...
...well-being of the creditor is endangered when the debtor is crushed under his burden. . . . The seller needs the purchasing power of the buyer. There is no method by which economic wellbeing can be permanently isolated in one country...