Word: burdens
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...President Hoover had no Federal cash to give the states. He explained that the Red Cross had made $5,000,000 available for emergency suffering, that the Farm Loan Board might supply $700,000 in credits, but that states and local banks would have to shoulder the major burden of relief for themselves. Some Governors were disappointed but said nothing. President Hoover himself announced the conference results...
Plans. "There are at least 250 counties most acutely affected where some degree of relief must be provided. . . . The burden of effective organization to meet the situation rests primarily upon the counties and states themselves. . . . The objective of such relief...
Most U. S. correspondents drew a red Communist herring across the issue. But actual causes of the strike seemed to be: 1) demand of a 1?-per-hour wage increase by workers; 2) the refusal of workers to divide with their employers the burden of workers' insurance, obligatory since July 1. The employers refused to arbitrate, largely because reluctant to reopen their plants while business depression continues...
...York Sun under Charles Dana, was one of the young Newport sports of 1886 who organized and played on the first U. S. international team. She started her son Thomas playing as soon as he was old enough to swing a mallet. She helped young Douglas Burden and Cornelius Vanderbilt ("Sonny") Whitney to learn the game...
...though storybooks are full of such things. The she-bear picked up the child in her mouth. When he cried out and the parents came running, the bear loped away, carrying the child until she came to an open field near a railroad crossing where, alarmed, she dropped her burden, sped away. The child was badly bitten but expected to live...