Word: burdens
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...still before the Senate Finance Committee for perfunctory consideration, President Hoover did an extraordinary thing that foreshadowed his veto. He wrote an informal but public letter to Chairman Reed Smoot listing his objections to the bill, warning Congress that the bill would retard prosperity by placing an additional burden on the credit and business of the country...
...underbidding all markets. Neither is it desirable that German employers should make German workmen the world's coolies. The whole idea of the Young Plan is dangerous in the extreme. The Dawes plan could not have been carried through. The Young Plan, for the moment, gave Germany lighter burdens, but tried to fix this burden by transforming it from a debt to States into a debt to private people...
...standing debt to its veterans is unquestionable, and that aid should be given to those in real need in generally conceded. To extend a bonus, however, at this time and include those not in immediate want at the risk of weakening the government and putting a further burden on the whole people, is extremely unwise...
...yard race and Pearson is expected to be close to him. Elmer of Cornell is a dangerous threat and may carry off first place with Andrews of Dartmouth also a possible point winner. Pratt is the Green hope in the 300-yard dash: Meinig will carry the burden for Cornell and Dodge is expected to run for Harvard. Pratt and Dodge probably will have the race to themselves if they run against each other...
...laboratories themselves, the classrooms, and the library, where smoking would be out of the question, render any exception in the case of the corridors impossible as it would be difficult to draw line where smoking should begin and end. Extra caretakers to enforce the rule are unwanted, and a burden would be placed on the cleaners...